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[xmca] FW: African American Literatures and Cultures Institute June 3-30, 2012




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Please share with students and others who can spread the word of this opportunity. It's a great program for increasing the pipeline.  --sl
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SONJA L. LANEHART
UTSA-University of Texas * San Antonio
Department of English
1 UTSA Circle      
San Antonio, TX 78249-0643
Voice: 210-458-6610          Fax: 210-458-5366
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Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a candle.
 -- W.B. Yeats

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Dear Colleagues,

I'm writing to ask your assistance with identifying juniors who would be interested in applying for the *African American Literatures and Cultures Institute*, the month-long residency program at UT-San Antonio that is designed to cultivate interest among under-represented students (at the rank of junior) in graduate studies and careers in academe. Many of the Fellows who participated in our 2010 and 2011 residencies have gone on to excellent graduate programs. We'd appreciate your encouraging smart, motivated students from your institution to apply to join us for the month of June 2012.

We're currently in the process of finalizing the updates to our 2012 online application. The format will be the same as in the past. Would you please share this request and our website URL http://www.utsa.edu/aalci/  with your faculty colleagues, and urge them to have their students (juniors only) apply?

The key requirement for eligibility is that applicants complete their junior year by the end of Spring 2012. All academic majors are welcome, and while we're especially interested in bright self-starters, there is no minimum GPA requirement.

Each June, AALCI offers eight participants on-campus lodging, a $2000 stipend, a four-day trip to New York City, a GRE preparation course, a digital humanities workshop, in-depth assistance with preparing graduate school application materials, and our signature daily instruction in interdisciplinary Black Studies, led by Professor Howard Rambsy II, of Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.

Please let me know if you have any questions at all about AALCI. I hope to hear from you and/or students at your institution soon.

Sincerely,
Joycelyn


Joycelyn Moody, PhD
Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature Director, African American Literatures & Cultures Institute http://www.utsa.edu/aalci/ University of Texas at San Antonio One UTSA Circle San Antonio TX 78249-0643

joycelyn.moody@utsa.edu
Voicemail: 210.458.6857

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