Hello, and welcome to the 9th issue of the SDCN e-newsletter!  This letter is sent out to the SD family: all alumni, moderators, student leaders, participants, and supporters who help strengthen the network.

THIS ISSUE:
I. FALL UPDATES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
II. NETWORK NEWS
III. SD STATS: THE NETWORK BY THE NUMBERS
IV. SDCN PROGRAM DIRECTOR APPLICATIONS
V. SDCN SUMMER INTERNSHIP 2007 APPLICATIONS
VI. VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES


I.  Fall UPDATES

It has been a busy semester for SDCN Program Directors Tessa Garcia and Christina Kelleher this year.  SDCN has doubled from 9 to 18 schools and counting!  In this time, they have traveled across the country to some new cities for Moderator Training, such as Tuscaloosa, Atlanta, Chicago, and Honolulu!  2006 is an exciting year in the office: SDCN welcomed Christina as the new Associate Program Director, and Tessa follows in the footsteps of former Program Director Clark Herndon by getting engaged and is set to be wed this summer!

ANNOUNCEMENTS!







SD PRESENTATIONS & ENGAGEMENTS

May 29-June 3 – National Conference on Race & Ethnicity – Chicago, IL

June 12-August 4 – 2006 Summer Internship Program: Washington, DC

June 25-28 – Public Policy Workshop-College Student Political Engagement: Dayton, OH

June 29-30 – SDCN & South Africa meeting: Dayton, OH

August 4-6 – National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation Conference: San Francisco, CA

September 29 – State Dept. International Visitors Program – SD presentation to African citizens sponsored by the Phelps Stokes Fund: Washington, DC

October 6 – SD Presentation at Fielding Graduate University – Dialogue, Deliberation, and Public Engagement Certificate Program: Alexandria, VA

October 19-21 – American Association for Colleges & Universities Conference: Philadelphia, PA

October 28-29 – SDCN Student-Administrator Summit: Princeton University

II. NETWORK NEWS




Let us know the latest news from your school, and we'll make sure we share it with the network!!





SDCN Doubles in Size

In just one year, the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network has grown from nine to eighteen high schools, colleges, and universities!

Here is an overview of our latest schools in the Network:

As of academic year 2005-2006:
Princeton University------------------------------------------------Princeton, NJ
University of Virginia---------------------------------------Charlottesville, VA
Dickinson College------------------------------------------------------Carlisle, PA
Colorado College-----------------------------------------Colorado Springs, CO
University of Notre Dame--------------------------------------Notre Dame, IN
Denison University-------------------------------------------------Granville, OH
Princeton High School----------------------------------------------Princeton, NJ
The Lawrenceville School------------------------------------Lawrenceville, NJ
Stevenson High School------------------------------------------Lincolnshire, IL

As of academic year 2006-2007:
Germantown Academy-----------------------------------Fort Washington, PA
University of Alabama-------------------------------------------Tuscaloosa, AL
Emory University------------------------------------------------------Atlanta, GA
Vanderbilt University-----------------------------------------------Nashville, TN
University of Hawaii-------------------------------------------------Honolulu, HI
Northwestern University--------------------------------------------Evanston, IL
University of Delaware-----------------------------------------------Newark, DE
St. John Fisher College--------------------------------------------Rochester, NY
Grand Valley State University------------------------------------Allendale, MI

…and counting!!!



III. SD STATS: THE NETWORK BY THE NUMBERS

Everyone has dedicated a generous amount of time to make SD happen at each school.  This 'SD Stats' section was a big hit last year, and we thought you'd like to know the latest update!  Now that training season is over, we've counted up the numbers.  Here's a look at SD by the numbers since August:

Estimated Totals

Total number of dialogue groups
    69

Total Number of Trained Moderators
    138

Number of Participants
     690

Hours of Moderator Training
    182

Miles traveled for training
    20,616
Miles traveled by Dr. Saunders    50,790

Program Director Applications Received
    Deadline is Jan. 31st!!!

2007 Summer Internship Program Application   
Deadline is Feb. 14th!!!


IV. SDCN PROGRAM DIRECTOR APPLICATIONS

Believe it or not, it's that time again! We're now taking applications for the next SDCN Program Director (PD) and the 2007 SDCN Summer Internship Program!  Take advantage of a great first-job opportunity. SDCN PD's are responsible for trainings, program initiation, program maintenance, and conference and internship management. As a PD, you will enjoy responsibility, travel, supplementary education, and skill-building that other first-jobs cannot offer. Read on for more information, and check out where our previous Program Directors have gone after working at SDCN!

*Please forward this announcement to all student leaders and moderators.*


Application due date: Jan 31, 2007
Competitive salary
Starts: Preferably June 4, 2007
Length: 24 months

The International Institute for Sustained Dialogue (IISD), a non-profit organization founded in October 2002 to promote the process of sustained dialogue for transforming racial, ethnic, and other deep-rooted conflicts in the United States and abroad, is looking for a recent graduate to serve as a Program Director of the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network (SDCN).  This job brings excellent learning opportunities, hands-on experience, and major responsibility.  The ideal candidate for the job will be a recent graduate with leadership and moderator experience with Sustained Dialogue on a college campus.  Position is ideal for individuals with topical interests in conflict resolution, organizational development, international relations, civil society, democracy, business/non-profit management, psychology, higher education, and leadership development training.  Also includes contact and interaction with leaders in academia, corporations, conflict resolution and international development.  Job training and opportunities for annual supplementary education included.

The job involves working closely with another Program Director to manage and develop the Sustained Dialogue movement on college, university, and high school campuses.  Job description includes spreading Sustained Dialogue to new campuses and maintaining/strengthening current programs. Specifically, the Program Director – 

∑ conducts Initiator and Moderator Trainings
∑ oversees material development, website, and newsletter
∑ coordinates Annual SDCN Intercollegiate Conference and SDCN Summer Internship
∑ presents SD at national conferences
∑ assists in IISD grant-writing
∑ works closely with and facilitates networking among students, alumni, faculty members, and administrators across the country 



The candidate must be self-motivated, responsible, resourceful and personable, with a deep commitment to and understanding of Sustained Dialogue.  He or she must have the ability to work independently, as well as in a team, and be willing to develop and implement their own work plan.  Strong writing, communication, and public speaking skills required.  National travel necessary. 

The Program Director will work for Harold Saunders, Chairman and President of the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue, and current Director of International Affairs at the Kettering Foundation, a non-profit research association.  Dr. Saunders is a former Assistant Secretary of State, who served under 5 different administrations- from Kennedy to Carter.  He flew on the Kissinger shuttle missions, drafted the Camp David accords under President Carter, and helped negotiate the end of the Iran hostage crisis. The International Institute for Sustained Dialogue is located in Washington D.C.  He or she will also work alongside Christina Kelleher for the first year, and help select her replacement for year two.  Ms. Kelleher, a recent graduate of the University of Virginia, was a moderator and leader of the Sustained Dialogue Program on her campus, and signed on in the summer of 2006 to be one of two Program Directors for 2006-2008.

Please fax resume and cover letter to Tessa Garcia at (202) 393-7644, or email information to info@sdcampusnetwork.org no later than January 31st, 2007.  For more information on the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue and the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network, please see www.sustaineddialogue.org.




  Jessica Munitz

      Jess graduated from Princeton in 2003 as a Religion major. The "ReachOut 56 Fellowship" (awarded to Jess by the Princeton's Class of 1956 to allow graduating seniors to work for public interest organizations without the funding to hire them) enabled Jess to work on a full-time basis with IISD in order to institutionalize support for students and administrators to initiate, moderate, and maintain Sustained Dialogue programs. As the first Program Director for SDCN Jess oversaw the first SDCN Internship, created the first SD Moderator Manuals, coordinated the first National SDCN Intercollegiate Conference at Dickinson College, and established SDCN's name as a pioneer in the field of campus dialogue projects. Working largely on her own and without the benefit of predecessor, Jess achieved an incredible feat in establishing SDCN as a viable project of a young non-profit. Moreover, while serving as PD, she completed graduate coursework in Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. Since her year at IISD, Jess has completed a post-baccalaureate program in Classical Languages at the University of Pennsylvania, earned an MA in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University, and is currently working on a PhD in Applied Anthropology at Columbia, where she hopes to focus her research on American higher education.  Jess credits her experience as Program Director with helping her focus her interests in the role that institutions of higher education play in teaching values of intellectual and cultural diversity, democracy, conflict management.   

 Priya  Narayan Parker

      Co-founder of SD at UVA, Priya Parker graduated in 2004 with a major in Political and Social Thought served as Program Director for SDCN from 2004-2005. Under Priya's management, SDCN held its second annual Intercollegiate Conference and third internship program, refined and delivered Moderator Training to more schools, won a grant from the Kellogg Foundation to develop its technological capacity, and began presenting its work at national conferences. In October 2005, Priya moved to New Delhi, India to work with a peace-building NGO called 'Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace' (WISCOMP) as a Sustained Dialogue consultant and trainer (see www.wiscomp.org/sd for the SD work in India). As a trainer, Priya conducts SD workshops and trainings for citizen groups from Pakistan, Nepal, Kashmir, Gujarat and Delhi. Priya has recently also joined a research institute in Delhi called PRS Legislative Research to learn more about "democracy from the top down," and is working on legislation and bills going through Indian Parliament.  She plans to apply for graduate school focusing on public policy and international relations.  She says that her experience as PD for SDCN was "the best job she could imagine coming straight out of college- I loved working with students, being part of a growing network, having the opportunity to travel and also to work so closely with Hal Saunders.  That one year taught me more than I could imagine about SD, conflict resolution, management, and NGOs, as well as helped me reach the next level—taking this stuff internationally!"  

  Clark Herndon

      Clark has been involved with Sustained Dialogue since his second year at the University of Virginia.  Clark participated in a group, was a moderator, and eventually became the chair of UVA's SD program. UVA's program grew to have over 250 members and 17 groups during his final year at the University, and boasted numerous accolades and accomplishments.  Clark graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Virginia, before joining the SD Campus Network in June of 2005 as SDCN's third Program Director. Working alongside Associate Program Director Tessa Garcia, Clark managed an expanded SDCN and implemented increased follow-up with students engaged in SD moderating and leadership tasks. After leaving SDCN in 2006, he took a position at Bain and Company as an associate consultant. The worlds of management strategy consulting and non-profit dialogue-initiating seem pretty distant, but according to Clark, "The year I had working as an SD program director was invaluable to me. Trying to manage a large and growing network, interacting with so many interesting students who taught me so many different things, and enjoying the experience of working with such incredibly talented people really shaped the way I view my responsibilities now. I know that I'll continue to use the things I learned at SD on a daily basis as I interact with my colleagues and clients in what is-as many if not most jobs are-an industry and a life where relationships are so important."

  Tessa Garcia

Tessa encountered SDCN while on a quest to improve campus race relations through a research grant at the University of Notre Dame. Since her role as founder and executive chair of Sustained Dialogue at Notre Dame, Tessa also interned for the SDCN Summer Internship Program before assuming her role as the first Associate Program Director.   During her internship, she co-designed the SDCN logo and helped to develop the first SDCN website.  As Associate Program Director, she co-coordinated the 3rd Annual SDCN National Conference, oversaw the adaptation of the SDCN Leadership Manual and Moderator Resource Handbook, and completed the Dialogue, Deliberation and Public Engagement Certificate Program for scholar-practitioners at Fielding Graduate University.  She also received training at the Summer Peace-building Institute at Eastern Mennonite University. As Program Director the following year, Tessa oversaw the 2006 Summer Internship Program and managed SDCN as it offered its services to a greatly expanded network, composed of SD programs at 18 schools (up from the previous year's 9). Tessa is currently in her 2nd year at SDCN and will have presented SD at seven national conferences and one international corporation by June 2007.  She is a graduate from the University of Notre Dame and holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology and a minor in Public Relations from St. Mary's College.

 Christina Kelleher

Christina graduated from UVA in May 2006 as an English and American Studies double major. At UVa, Christina participated and moderated in SD, while serving on its Executive Board as Events Chair and ultimately as Vice-Chair. Christina served as an Intern at SDCN in 2005, during which time she gained an appreciation for the complex tasks involved in the development of SD to deal with racial tensions on college campuses. Christina was also involved in Alternative Spring Break at UVa, which relates to her love for travel and her interest in community work. She joined SDCN as an Associate Program Director in July. In her first 5 months working fulltime at SDCN, Christina "has learned an incredible amount about conflict management, diversity on college campuses, non-profit management, and public-speaking", against the backdrops of Chicago, IL; San Francisco, CA; Charlottesville, VA; Atlanta, GA; Carlisle, PA; Princeton, NJ; Tuscaloosa, AL; Colorado Springs, CO; Philadelphia, PA; and Honolulu, HI, where she and Tessa have traveled for Moderator Trainings and conferences. Christina sights her tenure at SDCN as having involved "incredible learning, exciting responsibility, and work with amazing individuals". Christina remains unsure of her career aspirations, but notes that her work at SDCN provides a great starting point from which to consider non-profit/business management, law, or future education in psychology or conflict resolution. 


IV. 2007 SDCN SUMMER INTERNSHIP APPLICATIONS



We at SDCN are pleased to announce that the 2007 SDCN Summer Internship Program applications are now available.   This unique
experience offers a truly hands-on opportunity to connect with students at other SD campuses and learn from Dr. Saunders himself.

*Please forward this announcement to all student leaders and moderators.*


Best of luck and happy new year!


Application due date: February 14, 2007
Paid internships
Starts: Preferably June 11, 2007
Length: 8-9 weeks
Location: Washington, D.C.

The International Institute for Sustained Dialogue, a non-profit organization founded in October 2002 to promote the process of Sustained Dialogue for transforming racial, ethnic, and other deep-rooted conflicts in the United States and abroad, is now accepting applications for its 5th annual Sustained Dialogue Campus Network (SDCN) Summer Internship Program. This internship program allows students from different SD campuses to work collaboratively on improving Sustained Dialogue on current and future campuses.  These paid internships bring excellent learning opportunities, hands-on experience, and the opportunity to build a program.  Ideal candidates are current students involved in a moderator and/or leadership position with Sustained Dialogue on their campus.  Candidates must be self-motivated, responsible, resourceful and personable, with a deep commitment to and understanding of Sustained Dialogue.  He or she must
have the ability to work independently, as well as in a team, and be willing to develop and implement their own work plan.  Strong writing, organization, and communication skills required.

The SDCN Internship Program includes the following:

∑ Substantive projects include those such as resource material
development, technology projects, developing media strategies,
strengthening the SD network and current programs, and an evaluation
and assessment project.  Interns will work closely with both Program
Directors and two other interns within the SD Network.

∑ Time for internal assessments on their own individual SD programs.

∑ Sharpen moderating and leadership skills through an intimate
'mini-Sustained Dialogue' with co-interns and Program Directors
throughout the term of the internship

∑ Brown Bag Speakers Series featuring private lunches with leaders and
activists in fields of dialogue, deliberation, and international
relations.

∑ Conversation Series with Dr. Harold Saunders, Chairman and President
of the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue, former Assistant Secretary of State.

∑ Working with a motivated team of committed young people that believe
in what they are doing!


Please fax resume and cover letter, indicating roles in SD, personal strengths, and any specific project interests, to Tessa Garcia (202) 393-7644, or email information to info@sdcampusnetwork.org, no later than February 14, 2007.  For more information on the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue and the Sustained Dialogue Campus
Network, please email info@sdcampusnetwork.org, call at (202) 393-7643 or visit our website at www.sdcampusnetwork.org.



V. SDCN VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES


Kick-off Travel Teams.  Be a part of a 3-4 member SD Kick-Off team and travel to other SD campuses across the nation to support new schools start Sustained Dialogue.  Meet students from other campuses that are also engaged in Sustained Dialogue and concerned with the same issues you are!  Speak about your experiences with Sustained Dialogue at a Kick Off event.  Encourage and motivate new SD participants and leaders!

Internships. Apply to be a fall, spring, or summer intern at the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue based in Washington D.C. IISD interns get valuable experience and hands-on work communicating with students, contacting new schools, developing materials, gaining technical skills, and much more!!  Both paid and unpaid internships available.

Website Master.  Do you have web design and maintenance skills?  Be the SDCN webmaster! Email info@sdcampusnetwork.org if you are interested.




Please email Tessa and Christina at info@sdcampusnetwork.org
or call at (202) 393-7643
with any questions, comments, or inquiries!