Seeking Nominations For the Dr. Phyllis R. Klotman Personal Safety Awards, Nominations Due April 4

Has your chapter's Risk Management officer done a lot this year to improve your house's safety record?

Has your residence hall government enacted programs that you believe make your dorm safer?

Have members of your department gone out of their way to raise awareness of safety issues at Indiana University?

NOMINATE DESERVING A INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP TODAY for the Dr. Phyllis R. Klotman Personal Safety Awards! The Personal Safety Achievement Award recognizes the contribution of an individual toward improving the
personal safety environment on our campus. The Leadership in Personal Safety Award recognizes a university unit or organization that has made a significant effort to improve personal safety on our campus.

Visit http://www.indiana.edu/~owa/cps/award/ to fill out or download a nomination form today! Nominations are due Friday, April 4, 2008, so don't delay!

For more information, please contact Stacy Konkiel, Commission on Personal Safety Coordinator, at cps@indiana.edu or 855-0878.

The P. J. and Hilda W. Hill Award

Applications are now available for the P. J. and Hilda W. Hill Award. The award was established from a gift from P. J. Hill, a 1920 graduate of Indiana University, to be given to the outstanding senior on the IU Bloomington campus who has done the most to “better race relationships on the IU campus” during his/her undergraduate career. To be eligible for this $5000 award a graduating senior student must submit an application, resume, essay, and three letters of recommendation. In order to meet the hope of P.J. Hill’s bequest, the application requires a student to answer the following essay question: During your undergraduate years at Indiana University, what have you done to improve interracial interaction on the Bloomington campus? Describe why you made those contributions and the impact they have had or will have on IUB. To be considered all materials must be completed and submitted to the Office of the Vice Provost for Student Affairs 200 Franklin Hall by Monday, April 7^th, 2008. An application may be requested electronically by contacting spolicel@indiana.edu and the word document will be sent in the reply.

Social Welfare History Group Essay Competition

The Social Welfare History Group (SWHG) is happy to announce its first history essay student scholarship award. The first place award is $300 and the second place award is $200. The awards will recognize historical research and scholarship. We invite papers for consideration.

The Social Welfare History Group first met in 1956. The organization continues to maintain an independent identity. Over its 50 years of existence, the Social Welfare History Group has consistently encouraged the teaching of history and the value of conducting historical research relevant to social work and social welfare through presentations at conferences and the publication of bibliographies, articles and dissertations. To learn more about the Social Welfare History Group visit http://depts.washington.edu/sswweb/swhg/index.html

Award winners will be announced at the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting. Papers submitted for this award can address a variety of topics from a historical perspective ranging from the history of social work education or domestic violence to a historical examination of child welfare or grandparenting. They can examine social work education, research, theory and/or practice. Papers are required to use primary data and must include adequate documentation. The papers should contribute to the knowledge base in social work and should further highlight historical research methodology as critical to social work practice, research and program/policy development.

Papers submitted for this essay contest must not be published (nor in-press) manuscripts and should not exceed twenty (20) pages in APA style.

We encourage authors to submit their papers via email by Friday May 2, 2008 (11:59 pm USA ET). The papers should be emailed to ibc9717@email.unc.edu

Iris Carlton-LaNey, Ph.D.

President

Social Welfare History Group

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

School of Social Work

SAMUEL HUNTINGTON PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD PROGRAM

SAMUEL HUNTINGTON PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD PROGRAM INVITES APPLICATIONS FROM GRADUATING COLLEGE SENIORS

http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10010216/nationalgridus

Deadline: February 15, 2008

The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award provides a $10,000 stipend for a graduating college senior to pursue one year of public service anywhere in the world. The award allows recipients to engage in a meaningful public service activity for a year before proceeding on to graduate school or a career. The award was created in honor of the late president and chief executive officer of the former New England Electric System, now National Grid (http://www.nationalgridus.com/ ). Applicants should develop a proposal for public service in the United States or abroad. The proposal may encompass any activity that furthers the public good. It can be undertaken by the student alone or working through established charitable, religious, educational, governmental, or other public service organizations. All graduating students from accredited colleges in the United States are invited to apply. Non-U.S. citizens are eligible to apply but must be graduating from a U.S. college or university.