Current Job Market Trends from Zippia.com

Back in December 2020, Zippia.com published the article, “Experts Weigh in on Current Job Market Trends,” which featured a Q&A with Dr. Any Cabrera Rasmussen. Dr. Cabrera Rasmussen’s part was particularly relevant to Political Science students. Zippia.com has now aggregated the responses from thousands of experts across the country for various fields: Job Market For Recent Grads. 

If you are curious about the job market across various industries, check it out!

 

CSULB wins the 2021 11th Annual California Classic Moot Court Competition

CSULB’s Jessica Zatarain and Nichole Athanitis won the 11th Annual California Classic.  This was the first California Classic to be held on Zoom.  It was the 10th California Classic title in CSULB history and the 7th in a row.  Zatarain and Athanitis dominated from start to finish winning 20 of 20 ballots.  CSULB’s Aleece Hanson and Ryan Marden finished third.  Hanson was named the top orator with a 380/400 average.  Kellie Sala, Marden, and Zatarain were also named top ten orators.  

Spring 2021 Political Science Newsletter

Check out our spring 2021 newsletter for this year’s highlights of our students, faculty, alumni, and more!

Spring Newsletter 2021

Government career panel- Thursday, April 22

The Career Development Center and Design Your Long Beach will be hosting an Industry Spotlight: Government on Thursday April 22, 3-4pm on Zoom. This online event will provide students with an opportunity to interact with a diverse group of professionals in government careers.

Students will meet:

  • Fern Nueno, AICP, LEED AP; Mobility Programs Officer for the City of Long Beach, Public Works Department
  • Jason Vorderstrasse, Diplomat in Residence for the U.S. Department of State
  • Kelvin Driscoll, General Relief Program Director at Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services

The event will have a panel presentation with the professionals followed by a Q & A session. Students will learn about:

  • A variety of government careers across job functions
  • Real stories from professionals working within the government field
  • Tips on how to gain a competitive edge when seeking employment for government jobs      

In order to participate in this event, both steps must be completed:

  1. RSVP on CareerLINK:
    • Log in to CareerLINK (SSO -> CareerLINK -> Events -> Workshops -> WEBINAR: Industry Spotlight: Government -> RSVP)
  1. Register on Zoom: https://csulb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpduGhqD4pHdy2ousGJ2Fz651HL9wNYSRC

Open ASI Positions and ANY Fellows Program

ASI Positions 

ASI Student Government has begun our recruitment for the open 2021-22 elected and appointed student leadership positions. The job descriptions can be found on our webpage https://www.asicsulb.org/gov/vacancies/job-descriptions. All of our student leader positions do receive a scholarship each semester for their service to student government. We are also hosting Information Sessions on April 22nd and April 30th for students to learn more about student government and the positions. The deadline to apply is 5pm on May 7th

About the America Needs You Fellows Program 

The America Needs You (ANY) Fellows Program is a two-year program that provides intensive career development support for first-generation college students. This is done through a variety of career development tools that target specific topics and skills. America Needs You’s goal is for Fellows to come out of this program feeling empowered, accomplished, confident, and ready to enter the workforce after graduation.

Tuesday Info Sessions

Every Tuesday at 12:30pm! Come join us to learn more about the ANY California Fellows Program. Register for an info session here!

Our Fellows Program includes:

  1. A Mentor Coach to provide one-on-one support
  2. Access to internships at prestigious companies and organizations
  3. Stipend of $2,000 total for duration of program (2 years)
  4. Networking opportunities with industry professionals
  5. In-kind services and products like free business attire
  6. 28 Saturday workshops to learn and practice professional development skills

Check out this video to see how our Fellows have benefitted and grown in our program!

APPLY HERE!

FINAL DEADLINE: April 15

The final deadline is April 15th. The ANY CA staff is available to assist with application help. Please see the flyer below for additional details. If you have any follow-up questions, please do not hesitate in reaching out to Ariana Seymore at ariana.seymore@americaneedsyou.org, who is the fellow recruitment lead. Thank you and we look forward to reading your application!

Program Eligibility

  • You are a first-generation college student (neither of your parents have received a Bachelor degree; if one parent has a Bachelor degree but you are not in contact with them then you still qualify)
  • You are a current college student and plan on graduating in 2024 or later
  • You receive financial aid (Pell Grant) or fall under HUD low-income limits 
  • You are eligible to work full-time in the U.S. (DACA recipients are eligible)

In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Christian Soe

Professor Emeritus Dr. Christian Soe recently passed away. Below is a tribute written by Professor Emeritus Dr. Ron Schmidt along with a memorial card written by Dr. Soe’s wife, Louise Soe. If you would like to memorialize Dr. Soe, please contribute to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.

 

The department of political science is sad to report the passing of Professor Christian Soe, a member of our department since 1967. He became a full professor in 1978 and retired as a professor emeritus in 2001.

Christian joined our department from his graduate studies at the Free University of Berlin, where he received his Ph.D. summa cum laude in 1972. A native of Denmark, his mother moved the family to British Columbia after being widowed, and Christian completed high school and his undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia, before going to Berlin for his Ph.D. studies. He was hired primarily to teach courses in comparative politics, especially Western European politics, and he did so with distinction throughout his career. During his first semester on campus, though, as part of a four-course teaching load he was assigned to teach first-year American Government, having never taken a course on the subject, and having observed it only from afar. As was his manner, he buckled down, staying up to all hours of the night, even sleeping on his desk, prepping to teach a course on this very strange system of government, and he emerged from the experience as a gifted and beloved teacher, not only in comparative politics but in American politics, and political theory as well. Students from first year to graduate levels took to his talent for wrapping political knowledge into stories seen from a human and humane perspective. Unusually available for office hour consultations, he would work tirelessly with students having difficulties, trying to help them improve their academic skills, as well as their life coping skills. His colleagues also benefitted consistently from Christian’s generous spirit and expertise as a teacher and scholar, and he provided mentorship to a number of junior colleagues throughout his career on the campus.

Possessed of insatiable curiosity, Christian was interested in virtually any subject, but loved nothing more than an invigorating discussion of contemporary public affairs. Many of his colleagues have remarked on his ready smile and outgoing and welcoming demeanor. He always had time for a chat and loved telling stories of his many travels around Europe, as well as stories he had read or heard about.

Despite his gregarious manner, Christian Soe was a hard-working scholar of German politics who brought great distinction to himself and to the CSULB campus. He was actively involved in multiple professional organizations, providing leadership to comparative politics sub-groups of the American and Western political science associations, the German Studies Association, and other organizations as well. Among his many scholarly publications, he was co-editor and chapter author of five highly regarded edited books on German politics, and – most remarkably – editor of twenty-five consecutive yearly revised editions of the most widely used introductory anthology on comparative politics in American college classrooms, Comparative Politics (McGraw-Hill/Dushkin Inc., from 1983 to 2007). His exemplary scholarship on Germany’s Free Democratic Party led to his invitation to travel widely and frequently in Germany, giving lectures, observing elections, and participating in numerous research seminars. He was invited to be part of a team organized to observe the first elections in East Germany, following the demise of the Berlin Wall and the integration of Germany.

The connections he made in these trips also enabled him to bring another mark of distinction to the CSULB campus, the bi-annual Pacific Workshop on German Affairs, a major three-day event that brought to the CSULB campus scholars on German public affairs from all over the globe, including some of Germany’s leading scholars of politics. These gatherings began in 1983 and occurred every two years until 2001, a period during which Germany went through some of the most consequential changes in the last half of the twentieth century. In addition to organizing and hosting the workshops, Christian did the fund-raising, garnering enough funds to bring all the scholars on the program to the event at no cost to themselves. One of the leading polling experts in Germany writes:

“He invited guests whom others would not have had the courage to ask. Nobody could say ‘no’ to Christian because he was a person you could not say ‘no’ to. …[in the late 1980s his conference included] east Germans coming with the ‘watch dogs’ of the SED party and unqualified party ranks. Nobody could have done this other than Christian.”

Besides being a renowned scholar, Christian Soe was an exemplary academic citizen. He was a quiet leader in our department, whose wise counsel was always sought by his colleagues when making difficult decisions. He served as the department’s graduate coordinator for over a decade, successfully spearheading several major reforms of the M.A. program.  In that role, he helped numerous graduate students complete their degrees and provided those who wanted to pursue PhD degrees with advocacy and personal mentoring. He chaired and/or served on a plethora of committees at the department, college and university levels, including the University Graduate Council. And for the university library, he was instrumental in bringing to its archives the collected papers of Dorothy Healy, a highly controversial Los Angeles-based leader of the U.S. Communist Party during the 1940s to 1970s.

Throughout his long career and life, Christian Soe loved the CSULB campus. Living with his beloved family only a couple of blocks from the campus, his children practically grew up on the campus as he frequently brought them with him to the department and to the campus’ recreational facilities, the university library, the art museum, the Japanese Garden, and more. His passing leaves a large hole in our hearts, but many, many fond memories.

Christian Soe memorial card

POSC Alum featured in Oregon State Bar Publication

POSC alumna, Sarah Malik, wrote an article along with Hon. Mustafa T. Kasubhai entitled “Is There a Place for Us? On Being a Muslim American in Oregon’s Legal Community.” The article is featured on the cover of the February/March 2021 issue of the Oregon State Bar Bulletin. Congratulations, Sarah!

To read the article, please visit https://www.osbar.org/bulletin/issues/2021/2021FebruaryMarch/index.html?page=18, or a PDF link to the entire bulletin can be found here.

Women & Careers Symposium 2021 feat. Dr. Amy Cabrera Rasmussen

Women & Careers Symposium 2021

Retooling for a COVID Era Workforce
Thursday, Mar 4, 3 PM

Women and Careers Symposium

The Women & Careers Symposium: Retooling for a COVID Era Workforce is an interactive program with career preparation working sessions, networking, and discussion opportunities that will help to increase student’s career readiness and confidence.

Keynote speakers include Dr. Portia Jackson Preston, Dr. Amy Cabrera Rasmussen, and Dr. Audrey Reille.

Register online at: Http://bit.ly/3j8Djba and visit the Women & Careers Symposium website: https://www.csulb.edu/womencareers

 

Questions may be directed to the Women’s and Gender Equity Center at wgec@csulb.edu.

Non-profit career panel on Friday, March 5

NON-PROFIT CAREER PROFESSIONALS PANEL

Friday March 5, 1-2 pm

Interested in learning about a career in the non-profit sector?  Join us for an informal roundtable with three local non-profit professionals where we will learn about their unique paths, what their work entails day-to-day, and how to get one’s foot in the door to make a positive social impact in the Southern California community.

Participants:

  • Kathleen Jequinto, Development and Events Associate, Los Angeles Music and Art School
  • Maria Marquez-Brookes, Vice President of Resident Services, LINC Housing
  • Erik Miller, Executive Director, U.S.VETS-Long Beach

REGISTRATION LINK:

https://csulb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VpmkWFJhTxyyB7J5KSmKLQ

DESIGN YOUR LONG BEACH AND THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: UNIVERSITY HONORS PROGRAM AND THE LONG BEACH COMMUNITY INTERNSHIP PROJECT

CSULB Moot Court Team win National Championship!

Congratulations to the 2020-2021 Moot Court teams who had a great competitions season, despite the fact that it was all done virtually. 

Moot Court director, Dr. Lewis Ringel recaps below:

 

The 2020-21 season is complete.  This is the annual update for a most unusual and exceptional season.

It was a remarkable season.  Especially the regional season.  It resulted in a national championship!!!  It was a season that would be extraordinary even in the most normal of times – that it occurred during a pandemic is more astounding. 

  • Aleece Hanson (Presidents Scholar) and Barry Klein won the national championship for Written Respondent Brief.  This is the 3rd such national title in CSULB history.  The 2nd of my tenure at CSULB.  Good for 3rd best all-time.  Only two schools have won more national titles than CSULB all-time. 
  • Vaishalee Chaudhary and Marco Romero finished 5th in the nation in oral advocacy.  That’s out of 500 teams.  They finished the season 40-2 having won an unheard of 5 straight competitions.  They were the heavy favorites – the one seed even — but it’s better to be lucky than good and their luck ran out in the quarter-finals.
  • Kelton Munch was named the 15th best orator out of the 1,000 students who competed this season.
  • All four CSULB teams at nationals advanced to elimination rounds. 
  • For the season, we entered 11 contests (2 written advocacy and 9 oral advocacy) and won 8.  A program of 10 students (9 CSULB and 1 Wooster), 5 of ACMA’s 500 teams (.01%), won 8 competitions.  This included 3 regionals.  Only one other school has ever won more than 3 regionals in a season.

Congratulations again to all the CSULB mooters and their coaches! For more information on Moot Court, visit their website.