Represent UMBC ad the Student Conference on US Affairs

Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:32:33 -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 October 30 - November 2. The theme for this year is: Navigating Demographic Flows: Populations, Power and Policy.

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. While their site has not been updated with the current announcement, more information from last year's conference can be found at:

http://www.usma.edu/sosh/sitepages/scusa.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. Please also include your GPA.

The deadline is September 20.

Information from organizers:

"West Point hosts SCUSA every fall. It is the largest, oldest, and most prestigious 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 October 30th, an evening keynote banquet address, four roundtable sessions, and a closing-report session on November 2nd. Recent keynote speakers have included Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Dr. Leslie Gelb, Admiral James Stavridis, Dr. Rajiv Shah, and Ms. Susan Eisenhower.

"Our organizing theme this year is 'Navigating Demographic Flows: Populations, Power and Policy.' Our goal is to have the cadets and undergraduate delegates consider the current direction and velocity of demographic trends across regions and topics, and then determine how US policy might manage these trends into the future to best advance US interests."