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Seniors Sought for National Teaching Program
Teach for America, a national teacher corps of individuals committed
to teaching two years in urban and rural areas, experience persistent
teacher shortages, officials in the program say.
Teach for America recruits outstanding graduating seniors at 172
colleges and universities who have strong academic backgrounds and are
campus leaders. Particularly sought after are students for whom certain
districts express a special need: those who are bilingual, those who
majored in math, science and foreign languages, and people of color. But
anyone with a bachelor's degree may apply.
All applicants must complete a written essay, apphcation, a sample
leaching session, and two interviews.
Those individuals who are recommended for acceptance are placed
in one of Teach For America’s sites across the nation.
Corps members participate in a two-year program of professional
development which begins with an eight week pre-service Institute in Los
Angeles during the summer prior to their placement.
School districts hire corps members at regular first-year teacher
salaries which range from $15,000 to $29,000, with the national average
just over $25,000. For mwe information, contact recruiter Alice Criner
at (404) 320-1646 or write to Teach For America, P.O. Box 5114, New
York. New York, 10185.
Health Careers Program Opens Campus Office
The North Carolina Health Careers Access Program, an inter-institu
tional program of the University of North Carolina 16-school System, has
opoied a satellite office on campus
The office will be in 112 Miller Hall, kxated at the comer of Pittsboro
and McCauley Streets next to the Carolina Inn.
NC-HCAP, a multi-faceted jwogram designed to interest racial/ethnic
miitority and disadvantaged students in the health care professions, seeks
to enhance their chances to do so. The program focuses on gaining access
to and succeeding in health-related professional and graduate-level aca
demic programs.
Resources available at the Satellite Office include: information on a
variety of health careers; health training programs in North Carolina and
in other states; a directory of science and health professions; enrichment
)rograms conducted during the summer and regular academic year; and
idirectory of key contactpersons for minorities within the health sciences
schools at UNC-CH. These are the schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nurs-
ng. Phamiacy. Public Health and Social Work.
Although the program targets minority and disadvantaged students, all
JNC students are welcome to visit and take utilize the services offered at
J»e satellite office. Hours of operation are Monday and Wednesday, 1:30i
j.m.—3:30 p.m., and Tuesday and Thursday, 1:00 p.m.—^5:00 p.m. For
nformation. contact the NC-HCAP Satellite Office at 966-2245.
Upcoming Meetings:
^ote: Black Ink, a bi-weekly publication, needs at least one week advance
notice to place meeting announcements in this section. The next deadline
is Monday, Nov. 18.
There will be a BSM General Body Meeting at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday,
Nov. 13. in the Upendo Lounge above Chase Cafeteria.
The Collegiate Black Caucus will have their last general meeting of the
semester at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, in theSonja Haynes StoneBlack
Cultural Center.
Housekeepers Carry Com
plaints to Student Groups
By Scott Johnson
Ink Staff Writer
UNC housekeepers are seeking
help from a number of student
groups on campus in their effort to
address long-standing grievances.
The housekeepers, most of
whom are African-American
women, are fighting for better wages
and improved working conditions.
In addition to what they say are bad
working conditions and low pay,
some housekeepers have said their
supervisors sexually and racially
harass them.
Currently, University house
keepers work about eight hours a
day, five days a week and earn
about $ 11,000 a year.
They say they are notallowed to
take breaks or get drinks without
first seeking permission from their
supervisors. Because of the rela
tively low salaries, most housekeep
ers work an additional one or two
jobs.
The group of angry women first
brought their concerns to a Campus
Y cabinet meeting on Monday,
October 28, where they asked all of
the organizations in attendance fw
support.
In their effort to get most stu
dent groups involved, the house
keepers have found at least two
allies in the Student Environmental
Action Coalition and the Student
for the Advancement of Race Rela
tions, both Campus Y committees.
Recently, the housekeepers have
turned to the Sonja Haynes Stone
Task Force for help as well.
The housekeepers soughtout the
task force because they felt that the
group would best be able to bring
their issue to the forefront of cam
pus concem.The Task Force has
had some success in attempts to
obtain three goals in honor of Stone,
late professor of African Americar.
studies.
Recently, the task force realized
their first goal when the Black
Cultural Center was renamed after
Stone.
At a rally for Stone during
Human Rights Week, Nov. 4
through Nov. 8, the housekeepers
were given a chance to speak and
get their word out to the student
body.
The housekeepers are still in the
process of forming their demands
and planning what sort of actions
they will take.
Acccffding to Esa Davis, co-chaii
of S.A.R.R., their first goal is “get
ting an entire effort from the student
body.”
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