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Academic360.com
A meta-collection of Internet resources that have been gathered for the academic job hunter. It includes links to 3015 faculty, staff, and administrative announcements and is not restricted to teaching positions.


Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

As part of FIRE's efforts to educate students about individual rights at colleges and universities, we offer a ten-week Summer Internship Program. This internship gives current undergraduates the opportunity to assist FIRE in defending civil liberties on campuses all across the country.

The Institute for Humane Studies

Journalism, Movie, Film, TV, Animation, and Video Game Production and other Internship opportunities.


Burn Film School
Burn focuses on the virtuosity of the Judeo-Christian worldview and imparting that into creative media.


Act One
Act One trains and mentors Christians of all denominations for careers in mainstream film and television.


World Journalism Institute

The mission of the World Journalism Institute is to recruit, equip, place and encourage journalists who are Christians in the mainstream newsrooms of America
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Accuracy in Academia

Accuracy in Academia, a non-profit research group based in Washington, D. C., wants schools to return to their traditional mission-the quest for truth. To promote this goal, AIA documents and publicizes political bias in education in Campus Report, its monthly newsletter.

AIA also runs an internship program. Interns at Accuracy in Academia write for the Campus Report, a monthly newsletter, and both AIA websites.

Christian Trial Lawyers Association

The Christian Trial Lawyers Association exists to  advance Christian principles as they co-exist  with  the practice of legal work and to demonstrate  professional competence and godliness while  defending Christian values in the public sector.


ADF National Litigation Academy

ADF launched the National Litigation Academy - a state-of-the-art lawyer training project - in 1997. The Academy sessions consist of worship and devotional activities, banquets, theological exhortation, worldview analysis, fellowship, common meals, and joyful interaction.  They feature an intense course of study conducted by some of the top law school professors, litigators, and constitutional experts in the country. These experts instruct on public interest practice topics such as the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, Equal Access law, 42 USC § 1983 actions, Family and Marriage law, legal aid to the poor, and other matters.


K12Jobs.com

Serving a million teachers and administrators
per year, K!@jobs.com is the number one web site for K-12 jobs and teaching positions according to Google, Yahoo and MSN.

The National Journalism Center
The National Journalism Center (NJC) is an unusual venture in journalism education: Devoted to accuracy, balance, and comprehension of the issues, it has trained scores of students every year for over a quarter of a century in the skills of press work, and assigned them internships at cooperating media locations.

Founded by M. Stanton Evans in 1977, more than 1,600 alumni have graduated from NJC's 12-week training sessions, and we estimate some 900 of these have gone on to media and media-related positions. Among the media outlets where NJCers have worked after the completion of the program are the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal; ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and C-SPAN; Time, Newsweek, New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, National Geographic, Readers' Digest, Wired, George, Details, Stuff and Forbes; AP, UPI, Dow Jones Newswire, Bloomberg News Service, Copley News Service, Knight Ridder News Service, and hundreds more. In addition, NJC alumni have written more than 100 books among them, many of which developed from projects at the NJC.


The Reynolds Institute
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) is journalism's advanced studies center. Experts at RJI develop and test ways to improve journalism through new technology and improved processes. In partnership with media organizations and nonprofits, RJI delivers technological and strategic innovations in journalism and advertising.

Searle Young Legal Scholars Research Fellowships
Up to two junior tenure-track faculty members will receive funding to take a semester-long research leave in order to make major progress on an important scholarly article.Fellows will receive a stipend set at a level reasonably comparable to their salary for half of a year.  The stipend will be sufficient to enable fellows to take negotiated leaves from teaching duties in order to devote themselves full time to production of a significant piece of legal scholarship.  In addition, fellows will receive advice and feedback on their project from a member of the Fellowship Selection Committee.  The leave should begin no later than the middle of the 2009-2010 academic year. 


Poynter.org

Poynter.org is one of the most comprehensive journalism sites around. If you are interested in any form of journalism, this site is a must. Features everything from online discussions to story ideas to opportunities for training and employment.


Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Graduate and undergraduate students attend the Salt Institute to study documentary radio, writing, or photography. The program entails fifteen weeks of intensive, extensive field research coupled with workshops and seminars. Throughout the semester, students gather cultural materials and develop their craft in order to create documentaries of professional caliber.


The Law School Admission Council
The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) is a nonprofit corporation whose members are more than 200 law schools in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It was founded in 1947 to coordinate, facilitate, and enhance the law school admission process. The organization also provides programs and services related to legal education.

All law schools approved by the American Bar Association (ABA) are LSAC members. Fifteen Canadian law schools recognized by a provincial or territorial law society or government agency are also included in the voting membership of the Council.


Law.com
Law.com connects legal professionals to more than 20 award-winning national and regional legal publications online, including The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, New York Law Journal and Legal Times, and delivers top legal news electronically to a growing national and global audience of subscribers each day on The Newswire.


College-scholarships.com
The College Scholarships, Colleges, and Online Degrees page is designed to offer college-bound, graduate school-bound, and career school bound students of all ages information easy access to information about a wide variety of subjects which include:

· Free college scholarship and financial aid searches.
· SAT and ACT test preparation tips, and more.
· Colleges and universities throughout the United States.
· Online degree and online college programs

Baltimore Actors' Theatre

The Baltimore Actors' Theatre (BAT Productions) was founded in 1959 by Helen Grigal. Since its inception, BAT has been a multi-faceted operation providing myriad cultural and entertainment activities for its audiences and members. BAT has a large membership of performers spanning all ages. Its versatility is enhanced by its ability to not only give members a year-round performing venue, but additionally to provide training in all three disciplines: Music, Drama, Dance.


CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

The Master of Arts degree in journalism at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism is a new, intensive, three-semester program designed to prepare gifted graduate students for a wide variety of careers in the field of journalism.

This full-time program offers students a course of study that is both broad and deep, emphasizing the eternal verities of the journalistic profession while providing ample opportunities for specialization.

There can be no more dynamic environment in which to learn and work than New York City. The city is the media capital of the world, and the Graduate School of Journalism is situated in its very heart.


The Samuel Adams Scholarship for Journalism

Do you consider yourself a talented young journalist? Then you’ll be excited to learn that Patrick Henry College is offering exceptional Christian journalism students the opportunity of a lifetime.

Patrick Henry College is offering three scholarships for highly-qualified applicants to the College’s Journalism Major. We will be awarding one $10,000 scholarship and two $5,000 scholarships. These privately funded scholarships will make it more financially viable for talented, dedicated young people to take advantage of the unique education opportunities available to Journalism students at PHC.


Orange County High School of the Arts

Established in 1987, the Orange County High School of the Arts (OCHSA) provides a creative, challenging and nurturing environment that offers bright and talented students unparalleled preparation for higher education and a profession in the arts.

This premier public charter school currently serves more than 1,380 students in grades 7-12 from 92 cities throughout Southern California.


As one of the premier arts schools in the nation, the Orange County High School of the Arts embraces and encourages artistic creativity and academic excellence.  This innovative public charter school provides a uniquely challenging and nurturing environment focused on individual growth, opportunity, and diversity.  The U.S. Department of Education and the National Endowment for the Arts have recognized the Orange County High School of the Arts as a model arts education program.  The school is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).

Heartland Film  Festival
The Heartland Film Festival features student and professional films that celebrate the positive aspects of life. Their call for films to feature in the 2008 festival is on now.

National Arts Journalism Program

The National Arts Journalism  Program seeks to improve the quality of arts and cultural journalism, as well as its prestige in American newsrooms.

The Harvey Fellows
The Harvey Fellows Program seeks to encourage Christian graduate students to integrate their faith and vocation and pursue leadership positions in strategic fields where Christians tend to be under-represented. Our goal is to empower students who evidence the passion and ability to lead others as they participate in God's work to redeem society's structure.

The Blackstone Fellowship
The Blackstone Legal Fellowship is a nine-week summer leadership development program in law and servant ministry, the first of its kind and unlike any summer legal internship program offered in America. It is a rigorous program for exceptionally capable and highly motivated Christian law students from law schools across the nation


The National Association of Scholars
NAS was founded in 1987, soon after Allan Bloom’s surprise best-seller, The Closing of the American Mind, alerted Americans to the ravages wrought by illiberal ideologies on campus. The founders of NAS summoned faculty members from across the political spectrum to help defend the core values of liberal education.


Journalism Jobs
JournalismJobs.com was founded in August 1998 by Dan Rohn, a former copy editor and writer with The Washington Post, editor with America Online, and Washington, D.C.-based stringer for Money Magazine. JournalismJobs.com is the largest and most-visited resource for journalism jobs, and receives between 2.5 to 3 million page views a month.

Hollywood Connect
Hollywood Connect is a ministry that serves to welcome,equip, and educate Christians working in the Hollywood Arts, Media and Entertainment industry to fulfill their God-given calling. Whether serving newcomers to Hollywood or long-time residents, the goal of Hollywood Connect is to encourage a holistic to life as a Believer in the Industry by offering guidance and resources in the  professional,  practical and spiritual arenas.


ISI Collegiate Network
The Collegiate Network was established in 1979 to focus public awareness on the politicization of American college and university classrooms, curricula, student life, and the resulting decline of educational standards. To achieve this mission, the Network provides financial and technical assistance to student editors and writers at scores of independent publications at leading colleges and universities around the country. These publications have a combined annual distribution of more than two million copies. Assistance includes annual operating grants, mentoring sessions, annual training conferences, extensive guidance from experienced professionals, editorial resources, an online magazine showcasing student journalism, and year-long fellowships and summer internships at leading national media outlets.


American Film Renaissance
AFR celebrates timeless American values through the production, distribution and showcasing of films that reflect the enduring and inspiring principles of individual freedom (such as free speech, free enterprise, and freedom of worship), rugged individualism and the triumph of the human spirit, and through supporting filmmakers who share our mission.

Foundation for Economic Education
Since 1946 the Foundation for Economic Education has never wavered from its vital mission: to foster liberty and prosperity for everyone by changing the climate of ideasundefinedone mind at a time. The Foundation carries out this mission by continually deepening the understanding of a free society and by passing this knowledge on to individuals everywhere.Anyone over the age of 18 may apply for a FEE summer seminarundefinedwhether a full-time or part-time student, a parent, a teacher, or a professional.  High school graduates under the age of majority may attend with a parental chaperone.

The Moving Pictures Institute
The Moving Picture Institute identifies and nurtures promising filmmakers who are committed to protecting and sustaining a free society, and supports their work through grants, travel scholarships, awards, internships, training workshops, and networking opportunities.


The Leadership Institutes's Journalism Training
The Student Publications Workshop is an intensive four-hour workshop which gives you the tools to hit the ground running. Training sessions focus on recruiting a staff, defining your mission, fundraising, and many other topics to get your publication started immediately.

Graduates of the Student Publications Workshop are eligible to apply for the Walter Kandel Balance in Media Grant which helps new publications get off the ground by contributing up to $800 for the first issue.


International Law Students Association
The International Law Students Association is a non-profit association of students and lawyers who are dedicated to the promotion of international law. ILSA provides students with opportunities to study, research, and network in the international legal arena. The organization's activities include academic conferences, publications, the global coordination of student organizations, and the administration of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.


Chronicle Careers
Chronicle Careers is the employment guide of the Chronicle of Higher Education, the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

Based in Washington, D.C., The Chronicle has more than 70 full-time writers and editors, as well as 17 foreign correspondents positioned around the world.


Society of Professional Journalists' Scholarships
The Society of Professional Journalists' Internship and Scholarship page offers numerous opportunities  for training  and development in the  field.

High School Journalism.org
The ASNE High School Journalism Initiative helps scholastic journalism develop and flourish. Our efforts are growing a diverse generation of fledgling journalists and imparting a deeper appreciation of the First Amendment among all teens. ASNE is a membership organization of top U.S. newspaper editors.


Compass Film Academy
Compass Arts started in 1997 as a non-profit production company creating promotional films for other non-profit organizations traditionally unable to afford campaigns with high production value. After training a number of interns on set, it was decided to start offering classes in producing and screenwriting. In 2000, Compass Academy was born.

Early on, the Academy only taught a few, multi-week classes. Over time, a Resident Artist program was established to continue mentoring alumni in their careers.

In 2006, Compass rolled out a larger, full-year film curriculum in its move toward a multi-year film program: Compass Film Academy. Staff and Adjunct Faculty were added to further enhance the program. Students in the class of 2008 come from nine different states.

Since becoming a school in 2000, over 550 students have graduated from our classes.


The Russell Kirk Center's Residential Fellows Program

The Kirk Center's Residential Fellows Program affords students and scholars the ideal conditions in which they can conduct important research and writing. Fellows write books, essays, reviews, and theses while staying at Piety Hill for periods ranging from a few months to one year. Frequent in-house seminars formalize an already close and stimulating intellectual environment.

The Residential Fellows Program is organized to accommodate and integrate the varying levels of education and experience, as well as the diverse objectives, of those seeking a Center Fellowship. Those accepted to the Center's program are designated as Senior Fellows, Graduate Fellows, or Junior Fellows. The director of the Fellows program works to help each Fellow secure a professional position or pursue an educational opportunity.

In addition to hosting Fellows from some of America's most distinguished academic institutions, the Kirk Center has also welcomed as Fellows scholars and students from Austria, Britain, France, Holland, Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia, Poland, Russia, and the Czech Republic—giving the Center an important international dimension.

Eric Breindel Collegiate Journalism Award

The Eric Breindel Memorial Foundation: “Love of country and its democratic institutions as well as the act of bearing witness to the evils of totalitarianism.”

The Eric Breindel Collegiate Journalism Award, which began in 2006, offers winners a cash prize of $10,000, as well as a paid internship of his or her choice at either Fox News Channel, The Wall Street Journal, or the New York Post. In addition, residential housing in New York City will be provided for the winner for the duration of the internship position, if necessary.


The Object: Work which best reflects the spirit that animated the writings of Eric Breindel: Love of country and its democratic institutions as well as the act of bearing witness to the evils of totalitarianism.

Entries for the the Collegiate Journalism Award must be postmarked no later than Friday, April 23, 2010
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The Independent Women's Forum Internships
The Independent Women's Forum seeks talented junior fellows for a full-time, unpaid internship in our Washington, DC office. Internships are available in the summer, fall semester, and spring semester. Approximate length for the internship is three months. Junior Fellows assist IWF staff in research, analysis, writing, and event planning.

The Christian Legal Society's Law Student Ministries

The Christian Legal Society offers a number of resources for law students including conferences and links to scholarships.  Their mission is "to train and encourage Christian law students, law professors, and practicing lawyers to seek and study Biblical truth, including the natural law tradition, as it relates to law and legal institutions."


The Washington Journalism Center

The Washington Journalism Center is an advanced, experiential semester on Capitol Hill that will cultivate professional news skills and encourage students to think through the implications of being a Christian working in the news media in a city that is home to the powerful and the powerless.


Cinema Vita Film Festival
Movies shape public opinion and influence our culture.We are looking for short films that focus on the dignity of life.

The Second Annual Cinema Vita Film Festival is scheduled for early Spring 2009. This later timetable will give those submitting films next year additional time to perfect their art. We are also looking at expanding the length of the movies submitted and offering categories of 3-to-5 minutes and also 10-to-20 minutes. Please watch our website throughout the year for new developments on the Festival.


Association of Community Colleges Job Center
In service since 1920, the American Association of Community Colleges has aptly been called the "voice of America's community colleges."  The Association represents and advocates for more than 1,200 associate-degree granting institutions enrolling more than 12 million students – almost half of all  U.S.  undergraduates.


InterMission Hollywood
Founded in 1987, INTERMISSION is a dynamic and unique organization that has its finger on the pulse of the entertainment industry. It is comprised of more than 5000 entertainment professionals who have a love for Jesus Christ, a passion for excellence, and a desire to effect moral change on popular culture. Our mission is to build community, equip and edify believers and foster excellence among Christian professionals in the entertainment industry so that we can individually and corporately have a greater impact on shaping the moral fiber of the industry.


Lawjobs.com
Build your resume and cover letter, set up your job alerts and start your search for the job that will put your career on the right track.


The National Journalism Center
The National Journalism Center (NJC) is an unusual venture in journalism education: Devoted to accuracy, balance, and comprehension of the issues, it has trained scores of students every year for over a quarter of a century in the skills of press work, and assigned them internships at cooperating media locations.

Founded by M. Stanton Evans in 1977, more than 1,600 alumni have graduated from NJC's 12-week training sessions, and we estimate some 900 of these have gone on to media and media-related positions. Among the media outlets where NJCers have worked after the completion of the program are the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal; ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and C-SPAN; Time, Newsweek, New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, National Geographic, Readers' Digest, Wired, George, Details, Stuff and Forbes; AP, UPI, Dow Jones Newswire, Bloomberg News Service, Copley News Service, Knight Ridder News Service, and hundreds more. In addition, NJC alumni have written more than 100 books among them, many of which developed from projects at the NJC.


Bill Of Rights Institute

Do you know your rights? Are you looking for help with classroom assignments, or maybe looking to learn more about citizenship? Are freedom and liberty important to you, and do you want to know more about what it takes to preserve them? The Bill of Rights Institute has a number of programs and resources that can help you do these things.


Job-Hunt.org-Academia
Job-Hunt.org -Academia provides searchable  notices of open positions in  academic institutions as well as links to other career resources.


Filmmaking.net
Founded in 1994, filmmaking.net is one of the oldest filmmaking resources on the Internet. The site provides reference and a community for new and independent filmmakers around the world.


Accuracy in Academia
Accuracy in Academia, a non-profit research group based in Washington, D. C., wants schools to return to their traditional mission-the quest for truth. To promote this goal, AIA documents and publicizes political bias in education in Campus Report, its monthly newsletter.


Academic Careers Online
Academic Careers Online includes faculty, teacher, research, post doc, adjunct, library, administrative and senior management positions at (community) colleges, universities, research institutes, and schools around the world.


American Center for Law and Justice
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) focuses on constitutional law and is based in Washington, D.C.

Through our work in the courts and the legislative arena, the ACLJ is dedicated to protecting your religious and constitutional freedoms.

In addition to providing its legal services at no cost to our clients, the ACLJ focuses on the issues that matter most to you – national security, protecting America’s families, and protecting human life.


FilmSchools.com
Find and compare film schools, film degree programs, and workshops in the United States and abroad. And see our film career guides to help start or advance your career as a director, producer, editor, or writer.


EdNews.org
EducationNews.org is a fresh approach to the age-old problem of increasing coverage of education news. Unfortunately, education is not a topic that news organizations are able to provide premium coverage to all the time, thus ironically, all education experts face the same problem - the difficulty of educating the public.

Art Careers, Jobs & Salaries
You're creative. You love to draw, paint, sculpt, write, or design. But what does it take to have a career as an artist? What paths can or should you pursue, and how valid is the stereotype of the starving artist? Pursuing a career as a full-time artist is possible, if you have the passion and the energy.

Career Paths
Artists can typically be categorized into four groups:
  • Art Directors: Art directors develop design concepts for media pieces and oversee the entire creation and production process.
  • Craft Artists: Craft artists hand-make objects, such as candles, tapestries, quilts, and pottery, to be sold or shown.
  • Fine Artists: Fine artists create items such as paintings, sculpture, and illustrations that are often displayed in museums and galleries.
  • Multimedia Artists: Multimedia artists create images for film, video and other forms of electronic media.
Go to artschools.com to learn more.

C.S. Lewis College

The C.S. Lewis Foundation has long envisioned establishing C.S. Lewis College in the U.S. as a fully accredited Christian institution of Great Books and Visual and Performing Arts. That vision is now about to become a reality as plans move forward to launch C.S. Lewis College on the beautiful campus in Northfield, Massachusetts, recently acquired for this purpose from Northfield Mount Hermon School. This property has been purchased for the use of C.S. Lewis College by Hobby Lobby, a privately held retail chain of arts and crafts stores based in Oklahoma City, OK.

Subject to securing all appropriate approvals, C.S. Lewis College currently plans to commence instruction in Fall 2012.


The 2010 Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program

In 1994, The Phillips Foundation inaugurated the Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program to award fellowship grants to working print and online journalists who share the Foundation's mission to advance constitutional principles, a democratic society and a vibrant free enterprise system. The fellowships are named in honor of Robert Novak, a Phillips Foundation founding trustee who provided the inspiration for this program.  Applicants propose a one-year writing project on a topic of their choosing, focusing on journalism supportive of American culture and a free society. In addition, the Foundation awards separate fellowships on the environment, on free enterprise, and on law enforcement.

Print and online journalists with less than 10 years of professional experience are eligible to apply for the fellowship program. Annually, The Phillips Foundation awards full-time $75,000 platinum fellowships, full-time $50,000 gold fellowships, part-time $25,000 silver fellowships, and special Alumni Fund fellowships.

The application deadline for the 2010 Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program is February 22, 2010.




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