Spring 2010
“Making the Most of your Summer”, a joint project with Alumni For Liberty
Description: Just because school is out doesn’t mean that the fight for liberty — or the opportunity to advance your career — is on hiatus. Whether you’re preparing to launch a career, start a summer internship, or kick back for some much-deserved rest and relaxation, there are plenty of ways to use your summer productively and in support of liberty. To learn how, join Alumni For Liberty and Students For Liberty on Monday, June 28 at 7:00pm for an E-Leadership Webinar, “Making the Most of Your Summer,” featuring Chad Wilcox of the Institute for Humane Studies.
“How to Nail the Job Interview”, a joint project with Alumni For Liberty
Description: When most people think of job hunting, they think of preparing resumes, writing cover letters, and scouring job posting boards to find opportunities. However all of those activities are simply stepping stones to the most important aspect of a job hunt, the interview itself.
Interviewing for a job in the liberty movement is a unique experience and we have two experts to help guide you through the process. For this E-Leadership Webinar we will be joined by Lea Krohn and Shannon Quantock, the Program Manager for Talent Development and Human Resources Manager of the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation. They have extensive experience on both the interviewer and interviewee side of the process. They will share helpful tips and guidelines to help you nail your job interview for liberty.
“Job Hunting for Liberty”, a joint project with Alumni For Liberty
Description: As the general job market contracts, the policy sector has seen an explosion in the number of organizations filling every conceivable niche of public policy from the international to the municipal level, creating employment opportunities that are plentiful but diffuse and difficult to find. According to one survey, there are over 1,750 think tanks, policy institutes, and advocacy organizations in the U.S. Add to this the non-profit organizations, lobby groups, and political campaigns that dot the marketplace, and it’s enough to send any sound-minded graduate back for another year (or 7) of school.
Resources abound to help talented young classical liberals become a productive (and paid!) part of the movement for a freer society, but you have to know where to begin. Luckily, Students For Liberty and Alumni For Liberty will be teaching you how to navigate the many job and internship opportunities in the liberty movement during our upcoming E-Leadership Webinar, Job Hunting for Liberty. Scott Barton and Isaac Morehouse, both of the Institute for Humane Studies, will lead a crash course on the job banks, career centers, and organizations that connect applicants to employment opportunities. Whether you’re an underclassman looking for an internship, a graduate seeking a first job, or an alum ready to move on to a new career, this webinar will provide an excellent starting point.
“How to Write a Winning Resume”, a joint project with Alumni For Liberty
Description: As unemployment continues to be acutely-felt across the country, employers are receiving more applications for positions than ever before. Oftentimes, a resume provides prospective employers with their first — and perhaps last — impression of a candidate, and so crafting a resume that is comprehensive, succinct, and well-designed is of the utmost importance to recent graduates in the job market. In this first installment of this joint E-Leadership Series between SFL and AFL, Talent Market’s Claire Kittle will provide a crash course in writing a resume that will get you an interview and land you a job at the firm of your choice.
Speaker: Claire Kittle is the Executive Director of Talent Market and has a decade of experience in the talent development field. She operated her own headhunting firm for more than three years before transitioning into a career in the free-market nonprofit movement. She joined the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation where she served as the Program Officer for Leadership and Talent Development. While at Koch, Claire managed the hiring process for the Foundation and launched and managed two talent programs – the Koch Associate Program and the Koch Internship Program.
Most recently, Claire served as the Vice President and Director of Research of the Buckeye Institute, Ohio’s free-market think tank. Claire currently serves on the board of TNReport.com, an independent, not-for-profit news organization in Tennessee. Claire earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Master’s in Public Policy from Georgetown University.
Fall 2009
“How to Get an Internship for Liberty”
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/.
Video:
E-Leadership: How to Get an Internship for Liberty from Students For Liberty on Vimeo.
“An Economic Analysis of Drug Legalization”
Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Miron, Harvard University Economics Department
Description: Drug prohibition is practiced by virtually all societies, and mainstream political discussion rarely broaches the subject of drug legalization. According to standard economic reasoning, however, drug prohibition is likely to cause numerous undesirable consequences and is almost certainly inferior to alternative policies for addressing the social costs created by drug use. This talk will present the economic arguments for drug legalization and discuss the evidence pertaining to this analysis. An important theme will be that that even if drug consumption is undesirable – in the sense that drug consumption causes harm to innocent third parties – prohibition is probably the worst possible approach for addressing these harms. At the same time, alternative approaches – including sin taxation, education campaigns, or subsidized treatment – have their own undesirable side effects. Thus, it is possible if not likely that a laissez-faire approach to drug consumption is the best that society can achieve.
Video:
E-Leadership: An Economic Analysis of Drug Legalization from Students For Liberty on Vimeo.
“Marketing on Campus”
Description: Advertising your student group and group events is perhaps the most important thing about running a student group, but also the one most often overlooked. Often, students think that just by holding an event on campus that other students will hear about it. Many times, though, a pro-liberty group will exist on campus and other pro-liberty students don’t ever learn about it. This webinar will bring student leaders who have done successful campus marketing campaigns to give insights for how to utilize both contemporary online marketing tactics as well as traditional on the ground strategies to maximize your group’s exposure and get more recognition from the university community.
Panelists:
- Irena Schneider, Co-Founder & Co-President of the American University Students For Liberty
- Liya P., President of the George Mason University Economics Society
- Pericles Niarchos, President of the Drexel Student Liberty Front
- Masood Manoochehri, Northeast Director of Students For Liberty
“An Economic History of the Prison”
Speaker: Professor Dan D’Amico, Assistant Professor of Economics at Loyola University New Orleans
Description: Prisons are undoubtedly a potential tool for the protection of liberty, but much like any technology they can be used in a variety of different methods to a variety of different consequences and motivated by a variety of different intentions. It is Dr. D’Amico’s argument that the long and sometimes tragic history of prisons parallels the long and sometimes dismal history of liberty. If this is correct, the future potential and protection of individual liberty in society is in part dependent upon society’s ability to constrain the use of prison systems by governments.
“Successful Campus Speaker Events”
Panelists: Jared Fuller (Wake Forest University), Aaron Moyer (Drexel University), Professor James W. Lark, III (University of Virginia)
Description: Bringing in speakers is the primary activity of many pro-liberty groups. But there are both good and bad ways to hold a speaker event. This webinar will feature several student leaders who have held major speaker events with national celebrities like Ron Paul and John Stossel as well as students who hold successful speaker events on their campus with local activists to share their insights for how to make sure that when you have a speaker come to campus, you have high attendance, an interesting presentation, and an overall professional experience.
“Adam Smith, Free Trade and the Birth of Economics”
Lawrence W. Reed, President of the Foundation for Economic Education
Description: As the school year begins, hear a lecture you may not hear on campus and celebrate classical liberalism! Invite all your friends, regardless of political ideology, and learn about free market economics. Lawrence W. Reed is the current president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), and former president of the Mackinac Center, which he pushed to become one of the most prolific free market think tanks in the U.S. He has taught economics at Northwood University and has received innumerable acclaim for his work in the liberty movement.
Spring 2009
“Market Based Management(R) for Student Groups” by Dr. Tony Woodlief (Market Based Management Institute)
PowerPoint Presentation
Student Panel on “Alumni Involvement”
Student Panel on “Transitioning Leadership”
Student Panel on “Threats to Liberty Around the World”
“How to Get an Internship for Liberty” by Scott Barton (Institute for Humane Studies)
Also available here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6999911097605720360
“Student Leadership” by Alexander McCobin
E-Leadership webinars will be posted online as they become available. Not all webinars may be posted due to technical restraints.
