Summary
The US onAir Network will be working with volunteers from Utah universities, colleges, and nonprofit organizations to oversee the curation and moderation of posts, aircasts (online discussions), and in person events for the Utah onAir Hub … related to federal, state, and local elections and government.
Our first outreach will be to University of Utah partly because of its proximity to the state capital. We have identified many of University of Utah’s civic engagement, academic, internship and research programs related to making democracy and civic responsibility a focus of higher learning on their campus … for students, faculty, staff, and local community. This post, over time, will have similar information on other collaborating organizations in the state.
Contact ben.murphy@onair.cc for more information on how to involve your organization.
OnAir Post: Utah Collaborators
About
The University of Utah’s chapter will initially focus on training interested undergrad and graduate students on how to curate Utah onAir content especially submitting Top News articles, events, videos, and information and moderating forums in each post they curate.
Student curators will also work with state senate and house committee chairs to produce aircasts on issues being discussed and bills being proposed in their committees.
During election season, students with other other organizations like the League of Women Voters, will coordinate and produce aircasted debates with candidates.
The University of Utah
Civic Engagement Programs
Source: Bennion Center
The Lowell Bennion Community Service Center was dedicated in 1987 by Chase Peterson, President of the University of Utah. He stated, “No university can rest merely with the transmission of old or the generation of new knowledge. It must also help students reach out to larger opportunities and responsibilities. That is what the Bennion Center is all about.”
Students have been doing just that – directing projects designed to address an identified community need, usually in partnership with an existing public or private agency. Projects that served elderly people, youth, and special populations were among the first programs offered, and still provide the bulk of our volunteer opportunities.
Student Government
Source: Student Government Overview
The 2020-2021 ASUU End of Year report coming soon!
The ASUU Student Government, much like the United States federal government, consists of an executive branch, a legislative branch, and a judicial branch. These branches work together to accomplish the varied functions of ASUU to serve the student body as effectively as possible.
ASUU EXECUTIVE BRANCH OVERVIEW
The executive branch is led by the ASUU President, Vice Presidents, and Chief of Staff, and it is composed of eleven boards with broad functions, ranging from providing resources to students to advocating for students to administrators to putting on events and programs. Each board is led by a director and associate directors, and each board is assisted by volunteer board members.
ASUU Executive Branch Overview
ASUU LEGISLATIVE BRANCH OVERVIEW
The legislative branch contains the ASUU Student Assembly and Student Senate. The ASUU Assembly is composed of thirty-six student representatives who are elected proportionally from each of the University’s colleges. Assembly representatives allocate funding to the University’s seven-hundred student groups and work with the ASUU Senate to speak for the student body.
The ASUU Senate is composed of 18 Senators representing the University’s colleges. Senators lead their respective College Student Councils, represent the students in their colleges on the Academic Senate, allocate funding for college-wide initiatives, and work with the ASUU Assembly to speak for the student body.
ASUU JUDICIAL BRANCH OVERVIEW
The judicial branch includes the ASUU Attorney General and the ASUU Supreme Court. The ASUU Attorney General helps the rest of the student government stay in compliance with Redbook, which is the ASUU Constitution and Bylaws. The ASUU Supreme Court resolves disputes that arise within ASUU or between ASUU and another campus entity.
REDBOOK
Redbook is the governing document of the ASUU Student Government. It contains the ASUU Constitution and Bylaws, and it provides an overview and instructions for how the various branches, boards, and positions within the ASUU Student Government are supposed to function. Changing Redbook requires approval by two-thirds of the ASUU Assembly and Senate, the ASUU President, by the University Committee on Student Affairs, the University Board of Trustees, and, in some cases, a majority of the student body.
Internships
Careers in Political Science
Students majoring in political science will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in a wide range of public, private, and non-profit sector professions.
Political scientists:
Develop a deep and broad base of substantive knowledge about the workings of law, politics, and government in the United States and abroad.
Develop and hone writing, communications, and presentation skills, as individual and in team-oriented environments.
Develop tools and capabilities to understand and analyze quantitative data and to draw conclusions from that data.
Have the opportunity to integrate their major with practical training and give their careers a head start through internships run by the Hinckley Institute of Politics.
Political Science is the only major on campus toward which Hinckley internships can count as credit.
Academic Programs
Source: Political Science Department website
WELCOME TO THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
Political science studies the world of politics and government. Political scientists study the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship, the uses and abuses of power, relations between nations, and many other important topics. Political science is a broad area of study that provides excellent preparation for a variety of career paths in business, government, and the non-profit sector.
Undergraduates
Why major in Political Science? Our students gain the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in a wide range of public, private, and non-profit sector professions.
Learn more.
Graduates
Why Pursue a Master’s or Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Utah? Our students gain a versatile set of skills that can be applied in a wide range of exciting careers.
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Research Initiatives
Source: Research
$641Million in Research Funding
FY 2021
2958 Awarded Grants
FY 2021
#1 in Technology Venture
Milken Institute 2017
963+ Thousand square feet for research space on campus
