Advising Update

• Have room for one more semester hour in your schedule? Check out these great off-cycle options for Fall 2022 (neither of these courses will be offered in Spring 2023)-- Working Internationally: Global Business and Communication or Global Research: Strategies and Skills.
• Deadlines to add or drop an off-cycle course: https://registrar.uiowa.edu/course-deadlines 
• Fall 22 graduates:
  • Deadline to apply for a degree (without a fee) is September 30.  Under the "Student Information" heading, click on the "degree application" button. 
  • RSVP for the commencement ceremony before November 10: https://commencement.uiowa.edu/rsvp

Job & Internship Fair and Prep Events

• Career Carnival: Prepare for the Fair, Anne Cleary Walkway - 10 am - 2 pm, Sept. 19, 20 & 21
•  Attend a Prepare for the Fair Session: Do's Don'ts & Donuts! Lobby of the Pomerantz Career Center (C310 Pomerantz Center) September 19, 20 - 2:00 - 3:00 p.m
•   Veteran and Employer Morning Meet Up September 22. Flyer here
•  Fall All Majors Career Fair September 22 in the IMU   

Latinx/a/o Heritage Month 2022

Tuesday, September 20, 2022
What Does It Mean to be Latinx/a/o/e?
Location: Peterson MPR
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Friday, September 23, 2022
Maria Cano Martinez Scholarship Ceremony and Reception
Location: Senate Chambers, Old Capitol
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, September 28, 2022
FREE Film Screening and Discussion: MIJA
Location: FilmScene at the Chauncey
Time: 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, October 1, 2022 
Sunset Salsa
Location: Downtown Iowa City Pedestrian Mall
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Monday, October 3, 2022
My Curls, My Roots: A Conversation About Hair
Location: LNACC
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

For more information regarding Latinx/a/o Heirtage Month feel free to visit our website: https://multicultural.uiowa.edu/celebrations/latinx-heritage-month. Additionally, you can follow us on social media platforms, including Instagram: @uiowalnacc.

Global Seal of Biliteracy Information Session

Monday, September 19
4pm
120 Phillips Hall or Via Zoom
More info

Interested in earning professional credentials for your language skills? The Global Seal of Biliteracy is a credential issued in collaboration with an institution and which can be awarded to anyone—student or adult—from any state or country, that has met the criteria for one of its two award levels on one of its qualifying tests. The Center for Language and Culture Learning in the Division of World Language Literatures and Cultures has partnered with Avant Assessment to make this credential available to University of Iowa Students at a cost of $20. The Global Seal of Biliteracy is serial-numbered and can be listed as a credential, not just an award, on a CV or LinkedIn digital profile. 

Study Abroad Scholarships: Deadlines for Winter/Spring in October

Need-based grants: https://international.uiowa.edu/students/scholarships-study-abroad/need-based-grants

Diversity Ambassador scholarships: https://international.uiowa.edu/students/scholarships-study-abroad/diversity-ambassador-scholarship

Merit-based scholarships for semester/academic year study abroad: https://international.uiowa.edu/students/scholarships-study-abroad/merit-based-scholarships

Deadlines in October for winter and spring study abroad--vary by type or scholarship.

Financial aid packages, including Pell Grants, can also be used to fund study abroad.

Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Information Sessions: September 12-October 3

Upcoming Events

9/19 International Writing Program Spanish Language Reading Event: 7:00 PM in the Main Library Gallery

9/20 Iowa City Foreign Relations Council Program: Postrevolutionary Iran: Noon via Zoom

9/20 Master of Social Work Info Session: 4pm in 402 online

9/20 One World Many Stories: community-based multilingual storytelling: 4pm in 120 Phillips Hall

9/22 Fall All Majors Career Fair in the IMU  

9/22 Diplomats@Work: Evacuating Afghanistan1pm Eastern Time Zone via Zoom

9/28 Sarah Chayes: How Corruption Spawns International Crises, Not Least of Which Is Ukraine: 7pm in the Old Capitol Senate Chamber