EVENTS, SEMINARS, ACTIVITIES

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NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers; Application deadlines: March 2 and 16 (various)

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Program and Development Opportunities 

BECOME A MENTOR OR FIND A MENTOR
APSA recognizes the importance of mentoring for effective career development and professional integration. To this end, the APSA Task Force on Mentoring developed a mentoring process administered by APSA to connect interested graduate students and faculty with political scientists in the field who are available for mentorship to counsel on matters of the profession.  In addition, APSA has compiled a list of mentoring resources for students seeking a mentor, and for senior faculty and others who want more information on mentoring.

• Mentoring Initiatives
• Find or Become a Mentor 

TEACHING POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM
The APSA Task Force on Political Violence and Terrorism compiled a bibliography of political science resources and a set of syllabi for model courses (and units within courses) on political violence and terrorism for secondary school and college levels. See:

• A Bibliography of Political Science Resources on the Study of Political Violence  
• Statement on Sources   
• All Syllabi   
• Exemplary Syllabi

Please send syllabi that you wish to share with a wider community to David Mason (masontd@unt.edu) with a copy to David Laitin (dlaitin@stanford.edu).

NOMINATE OUTSTANDING UNDERGRADUATE TEACHERS
for CASE/Carnegie Professor of the Year Award
The nominating period for the 2010 CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professors of the Year awards program ends Friday, April 16. The U.S. Professors of the Year program salutes the most outstanding undergraduate instructors in the country-those who excel in teaching and positively influence the lives and careers of students. Sponsored by CASE and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, it is the only national program to recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring. All undergraduate teachers in the United States, of any academic rank at any type of undergraduate institution, are eligible for the award. Entries are judged by top U.S. educators and other active participants in education. Find out more about this award at http://www.usprofessorsoftheyear.org/.

FOR YOUR STUDENTS

University of Maryland Summer Research Initiative to Increase Diversity; Undergraduate program, June 1-23, application deadline: February 12

2nd Annual Texas Political Science Student Conference; call for papers deadline February 18 

NSF Social Behavioral & Economic Sciences Undergraduate Summer Research Experience; Application deadline: March 15

Illinois State University Conference for Students of Political Science
April 23, 2010; Call for papers deadline March 8.

Call: Critique: a worldwide student journal of politics, is seeking submissions year round from both undergraduate and graduate students on ideas of democracy and justice.

Global Perspectives is an undergraduate international affairs journal edited and compiled by students from the Occidental College department of Diplomacy and World Affairs. We are now accepting submissions from all over the world. Check us out at http://tinyurl.com/2uhflw.   If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at Perspectives@oxy.edu.

Also: Graduate Student Connection

- Civic Education
- Civic Education Data - Service Learning
- Preparing Future Faculty
- Grad Student Connection
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Constitution Day Resources

Assessment in Political Science
Edited by Michelle Deardorff, Kerstin Hamann, and John Ishiyama.
Part of the APSA State of the Profession Series

Order your copy today.

Assessment in Political Science provides in-depth discussion and resources for classroom, departmental and program assessment. In addition to general assessment tools, the authors and editors provide guidance on assessing learning in special situations such as in online environments and experiential program. This is an excellent reference tool for all departments and faculty in political science. 

The book includes a companion website with additional supplemental material and resources on classroom, departmental and program assessment, and which reflect the scope of the discipline in our work to teach and educate from the undergraduate level to the doctoral level (see: www.apsanet.org/~assessment)