Students completing internships at the Women’s Center work an average of 8 hours per week during the academic semester. The spring 2012 internship will begin in January and go through May.
Women's Center interns are an integral part of
the Women's Center staff, contributing to the Center’s mission of “assisting all women in achieving their full potential in education, career and personal life through academic and intellectual growth, professional development and personal empowerment.”
This internship may look differently from year to year depending on the intern involved because the Women’s Center strives to maximize on the current intern’s interests and strengths. While we are able to offer some flexibility, all interested intern applicants should work within the parameters of the description below:
UMBC Women’s Center Programming, Outreach & Activism
Internship
Programming:
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Organize a program or
series on a topic affecting women and/or marginalized groups. Potential programs can be flexible to meet your interests and your academic program’s needs.
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In addition to a program
of interest, interns will be responsible for helping the Women’s Center staff
with programming related to 1) Sexual Assault Awareness Month (April) and 2) the Center’s 20th Anniversary Celebration. Related responsibilities
include but are not limited to:
Outreach & Activism:
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Update and add resources in the Women’s Center library and help manage/update the website
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Generate fundraising and/or sponsorship ideas by working to partner with local and national organizations that may support the Women Center’s mission.
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Write for the Women’s Center Newsletter about various topics and/or organize a group of interested students to create a feminist Zine on campus
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Create ways to connect with non-traditional audiences about Women’s Center programs and services (e.g., Athletes, Greek Life, religious organizations, International Programs, Residence Life, etc.)
The Women’s Center is always looking for creative and inventive people to make a difference at UMBC.
]]>We're celebrating our 20th Anniversary and cordially invite you to join us watch the play, "The Laramie Project". We'll be meeting at the Women's Center and then walking over as a group. (Please see flyer and website below for more information.
When: Thursday, 12/01/11
Time: 3:40pm (Play begins at 4pm)
Where: The Women's Center (Commons, 004)
This is special FREE preview. Please join us!
The Women's Center is excited to partner with the Theatre Department in honor of our 20th Anniversary. Please join us in a free viewing of Laramie Project.
Much like our theme of 100,000 Stories, Laramie Project reflects on the stories of a community impacted by the killing of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man. The play is based on more than 400 interviews with about 100 Laramie residents, as well as journal entries from the members of Tectonic Theater Project, as they reflect on their own reactions to the crime and to the interviews they carried out. Structured as a documentary, it attempts to reenact the events that occurred on that fateful night.
More information to come regarding how you can participate in this event with the Women's Center!
Here's all the details on this performance:
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the members of Tectonic Theatre Project
There is a GREAT line up of events for this year's DVAM that we're hoping will generate some great discussion and awareness. Please save the date and try to come to one or more of these events!
For more questions, feel free to contact the Women's Center!
]]>An Alabama pharmaceutical company issued a voluntary nationwide recall Friday for "multiple lots" of birth control pills due to what it described as a systemic "packaging error."
A spokesman for Qualitest Pharmaceuticals said that "there are no immediate health issues currently" because of the packaging problems. Rather, he said, the chief concern is that women may unintentionally become pregnant after taking the oral contraceptive.
"The unintended consequence of pregnancy is really the issue," spokesman Kevin Wiggins said. "That's why the company took a drastic action."
Wiggins said the recall involves 1.4 million packages that have been distributed to pharmacists and customers since last year.
According to a statement for the Huntsville-based company, "select blisters (found inside the pill box) were rotated 180 degrees within the card, reversing the weekly tablet orientation." This helped to leave the pills' lot number, as well as the expiration date, "no longer visible."
"As a result of this packaging error, the daily regimen for these oral contraceptives may be incorrect and could leave women without adequate contraception, and at risk for unwanted pregnancy," the company said.
A pharmacist noticed the issue and contacted the company by phone, Wiggins explained.
Qualitest urged those with such products to begin using a "non-hormonal" form of birth control and consult a health care provider or pharmacist. Pharmacies have been told to contact those who have gotten the faultily packaged pills.
The recall affects these products: Cyclafem 7/7/7, Cyclafem 1/35, Emoquette, Gildess FE 1.5/30, Gildess FE 1/20, Orsythia, Previfem and Tri-Previfem.
Customers can call 1-877-300-6153 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. CT to get their questions answered, arrange to return their pills or report problems. Information is also available at http://www.qualitestrx.com/pdf/OCRecall.pdf.
Wiggins said Qualitest is working with authorities "at a very high level," as well as with the product's manufacturers, to determine what happened.
"We're dedicated to ensuring the safe use of our products, (and) this recall reaffirms our high standards," he said. "It's an error, nonetheless, and we put patients at the center of what we do."