Students Wanted to Represent UMBC at West Point Conference

Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:22:41 -0400

The Political Science Department is currently looking for two students to represent UMBC at the Student Conference on US Affairs. This annual four-day conference takes place at West Point November 12-15. The theme for this year is: What’s the Worst That Could Happen? The Politics and Policy of Crisis Management.
The Department will cover the registration fees and travel costs for the two participants, and the conference hosts will provide lodging and meals. For those of you interested in foreign affairs, in particular, this is an excellent opportunity.
I am pasting information from the organizers below. More information can be found at:
http://www.usma.edu/scusa/SitePages/Home.aspx

If you are interested, please email Dr. Grodsky (bgrodsky@umbc.edu) with a one paragraph statement of interest (in the email body), describing your motivation and qualifications. You must also include your GPA.

The deadline is September 25.

Information from organizers:

West Point hosts SCUSA every fall. It is the oldest and largest undergraduate conference of its type in the world. Approximately 200 undergraduate students from over 100 colleges and universities worldwide attend SCUSA. Throughout the conference, the student delegates and cadets debate and formulate policy recommendations that realistically model American strategic responses to significant national and global challenges. The highlights of the four-day conference include the opening senior panel discussion on the evening of November 12th, an evening keynote banquet address, four roundtable sessions, and a closing-report session on November 15th. Recent keynote speakers have included Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Dr. Leslie Gelb, Admiral James Stavridis, Dr. Rajiv Shah, and Ms. Susan Eisenhower.