Students For Liberty

Description

The mission of the SFL E-Leadership Program is to cultivate the leadership potential of students around the world to promote liberty on campus.  The SFL E-Leadership Program offers virtual training seminars on topics related to leadership, liberty, and the pro-liberty community.  Students who have significant leadership experience and/or potential are invited to learn how to effectively organize students on campus and become more involved in the cause of liberty.  The seminars will be held via new media technologies such as webinars, online radio, and teleconferencing to cut down on transaction costs involved in connecting students with one another and learning from experienced leaders in various fields.  This is an exciting opportunity to connect with other student leaders around the world, learn best practices for running student organizations, and transition into leaders of liberty in society.

E-Leadership seminars are run by experienced individuals with significant knowledge of the seminar topic.  These include internship directors for national nonprofits, policy scholars at think tanks, business leaders, and highly successful student leaders who can relate the message directly to your campus context.

Upcoming E-Leadership webinars are listed here and a full list of past E-Leadership seminars and audio/visual recordings of select seminars are available here.

The Next E-Leadership Webinar Is:

“Global Warming Realities and Fantasies”

For this installment of the E-Leadership Series, Students For Liberty will be teaming up with the Cato Institute to present Global Warming Realities and Fantasies by Patrick Michaels, Cato Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies.  Each month the Cato Institute hosts a lecture for the DC Forum for Freedom, a coalition of local pro-liberty student groups.  This month they feature a live webcast of the lecture and host a discussion board, so that students across the world can listen to and participate in a Q&A session with their scholar.

Date: Friday, January 22nd

Time: 4:00pm EST

Description: Congress is currently considering legislation that would allow the average American in 2050 the carbon dioxide emissions of the average citizen in 1867. Costs are undefined, but benefits are exceedingly small, even if all nations that have current obligations under the Kyoto Protocol did the same. At the same time, it is demonstrable that global warming is occurring at a much lower rate than had been anticipated by climate models. Several troubling examples of bias in climate science can easily be demonstrated. All of these argue that any stringent limitations of carbon dioxide are not warranted at this time and that they might actually delay the development of more efficient technologies, having the unintended consequence of creating more warming than would have occurred in their absence.

Speaker: Patrick J. Michaels

• Patrick J. Michaels is a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. Michaels was also a research professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia for thirty years. Michaels is a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. His writing has been published in the major scientific journals, including Climate Research, Climatic Change, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Nature, and Science, as well as in popular serials such as the Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Houston Chronicle, and Journal of Commerce. He was an author of the climate “paper of the year” awarded by the Association of American Geographers in 2004. He has appeared on most of the worldwide major media. Michaels holds A.B. and S.M. degrees in biological sciences and plant ecology from the University of Chicago, and he received a Ph.D. in ecological climatology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1979.

Registration & Live Stream: http://www.cato.org/events/100122sf.html

Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=244182689711

“How to Get an Internship for Liberty” *FINAL WEBINAR OF 2009

Date: Wednesday, December 2nd from 7:00-8:00pm EST

Description: Want to work for an organization dedicated to liberty?  Want to do research and write papers on public policy?  Want to learn how to run a think tank?  You can gain experience in all these areas by interning for liberty this summer!  Many students have heard of the Cato Institute’s internship program or Reason Magazine’s internship, but there are literally hundreds of pro-liberty organizations around the U.S. where you can intern for the summer.  This webinar will provide an overview of what to expect during an internship for liberty, and how to make your application for internships as strong as possible. Note: Check out SFL’s listing of pro-liberty internships around the US here http://studentsforliberty.org/college/internships/.

Speakers: The outgoing and incoming directors of the prestigious and competitive Institute for Humane Studies Charles G. Koch Summer Fellowship, which places students at pro-liberty internships over the summer.

• Scott Barton – As Director of Communicators Programs, Scott Barton oversees IHS’s talent development programs for aspiring policy analysts, nonprofit leaders, journalists, filmmakers, and fiction-writers. Scott joined IHS in 2004 to work on several educational programs, especially Summer Seminars, and directed the Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow Program from 2006 to 2009.
• Isaac Morehouse – Isaac M. Morehouse is policy programs director at the Institute for Humane Studies. Morehouse previously worked at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy where he created and directed Students for a Free Economy. Prior to working at the Center, Morehouse served as a Michigan House legislative aide for three years, finishing his time at the House as chief of staff for a state representative.

Registration: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/320608763
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=177864983569