Date:         Mon, 24 Jun 96 08:30:12 EDT
From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Organization: Central Michigan University
Subject:      Graduate Student Page
To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY <SOCGRAD@CSF.COLORADO.EDU>
Message-Id:   <960624.085747.EDT.34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Graduate Students might like to take a look at the grad student page
published in FROM THE LEFT.  The newsletter comes to all members of
the Marxist Section of the ASA in your department and removes easily
for duplication...or any one can get a copy upon request and a
snail mail address.

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TYPICAL ITEMS:

**ASA Committe on Graduate Education will have a series of sessions
on graduate education at the NY meetings in August.  Workshops
include: Socializing Grad Students; Preparing and Using GTA's;
Effective MA Programs in Sociology.  FROM THE LEFT would be pleased
to report on these and other seminars if there is a Grad Student
who would like to sit in, take notes and send them along.

**The AFL-CIO is, according to Dan Clawson and Rick Fantasia, an
new source of employment for grad students.  Information and the
full article is in the May/June 1996 issue of Footnotes.

**Afro-American Grad Students are invited to attend a series of
sessions organized by the ABS in the ASA/NY meetings.  This series
was organized by three grad students at NCarolina St.U.  Contact
<bruce@server.sasw.ncsu.edu>  or <johnson@server.sasw.ncsu.edu>
Sessions include issues on the interaction of race, class and gender
as well as on crime and inequality.

**The Red Feather Institute has honored 11 grad students for
progressive scholarship.  They include:

  James Yarbrough, Texas Woman's University
  Vincent Roscigno, NCarolina State
  Bruce Marino, NCarolina State
  Jacqueline Johnson, NCarolina State
  Sven Johnson, Florida State
  Timothy Chester, Texas A&M
  Brian Ault, UMinn
  Melissa Herman, Stanford
  Daniel Harrison, Florida State
  Heidi Hendrikson, Texas Woman's University
  SEan Noonan, Kansas State

**A new round of Awards begin in August.  Send your best work to:

   TR Young, Director
   The Red Feather Institute
   8085 Essex, Weidman, Mi.,
          48893

**The Woodrow Wilson International Center has 35 residential fellow-
  ships to award.  Max stipend is $61,000.  Write:

  Fellowship Programs
  WWCenter, 1000 Jefferson Dr. SW,
  SI MRC 022
  Wash., DC, 20560   Email: ,wcfellow@sivm.si.edu>

**Nominations for the Al Syzmanski Award for Grad Students can be sent
  to Martin Murray at:

  Department of Sociology
  SUNY Binghamton,
  NY, 13901

**Send news of general interest of happenings in your department to
  TR Young for inclusion in the Grad Student Page.
                                                             TRYoung