Prepare for Global Impact

Students have been the best ambassadors for telling others about our vision of OCES. We do more than hold disciplinary conferences and hold students accountable for their actions, but we work hand in hand with students, faculty, and staff to promote change in our community. The best way to promote change is to educate others. THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN HELP US! We are looking to prepare for next year and we looking for students who would like to help us change the campus and learn skills necessary to compete in a global economy or in any professional position. Hence, the term, "Prepare for Global Impact." We have volunteer opportunities for students in the following areas: 

BE A COMMUNITY EDUCATOR

If you are creative, or would like to be more creative then consider being a Community Educator. Community Educators help develop and facilitate some of the learning opportunities presented by the Office of Community and Ethical Standards. Some examples of workshops we present are: Community Core Values, Conflict Mediation, Restorative Justice Facilitation Training, and Judicial Training. This group also creates posters, handouts, brochures, and anything else we can imagine to help educate the community.

BE A CAMPUS CONFLICT MEDIATOR

Our office is constantly looking for new and innovative ways to help our students work through problems. A student discipline conference is not appropriate for every situation. Starting in the Fall 2009 Clemson University will begin two new processes for addressing student behavior and problems. First we are creating a Restorative Justice program. Restorative Justice is a way to address the harm of an offender upon those that are considered the harmed parties and/or the community. Restorative Justice requires everyone involved (including the offender) to agree on the appropriate actions to address the impact on those harmed and restore the relationship(s). Second, there is a program for those situations where no one was harmed and no conduct violations have occurred. When two people are having trouble seeing eye-to-eye (e.g. roommate conflict), conflict mediators will be needed to help students in these situations communicate and come to some form of an agreement or understanding. We need facilitators for both of these programs. 

Training is simple and there is not a huge time commitment. Conflict Mediation has two parts: Introduction to Conflict Mediation and Being a Conflict Mediator. These workshops will be offered all throughout the summer and the fall. After attending both of these workshops you will certified to participate in on-campus mediations. To be a Restorative Justice facilitator you will need to attend both Conflict Mediation Workshops and attend a Restorative Justice workshop. All three workshops will last no longer than three hours. As a facilitator your time commitment will be 1-3 hours per month.

BE AN INTERN

We have internship opportunities available to students in a variety of disciplines. If you would like to know more about the various internships and if your academic program will provide academic credit for the internship, please schedule an appointment with Justin Carter at jcarte2@clemson.edu, or fill out the application and post a comment about internships in the memo field. We have two internships available in the fall. First we have a Restorative Justice internship (open to Sociology majors or a related field only) and we have a Community Outreach internship (open to all Clemson majors) that will supervise the Community Educator program.

it will BE A BENEFIT

We hope you take this opportunity as there will be many benefits for you volunteering with our office: 

• Learn critical skills necessary for any work environment (e.g. your future career, co-op, internships, campus leadership position, campus employment, etc.)
• Learn and practice conflict mediation techniques
• Obtain artifacts for your e-Portfolio (Gen. Ed. Requirement: Ethical Judgement)
• Build your resume
• Gain skills to compete in a global job market

PREPARE TO APPLY

By Friday, March 27th there will be a link on our website to an application. You can find this link at http://www.clemson.edu/studentaffairs/oces/communityed/index.php . Once there you will able to list the position you are interested in, answer a few short questions, and your done. I will also post the link in this blog once the application goes live. If you have any problems, please contact me at jcarte2@clemson.edu. 

Good luck and I hope to see you working with me next fall!

Always,

JC