Good morning, everyone!

We have a few announcements today. These include a call for submissions to Issue 6 of The Orange Couch (the DePaul Writing Center’s annual publication) and information on LAS’s Community- and Project-Based Learning (CPBL) Internship Scholarships.

Scroll down for more details on each of these!

(The information below has been copied from The Orange Couch and las.depaul.)

Call for Submissions: The Orange Couch

Deadline: April 28, 2025, 12:00 PM CT

About:

The Orange Couch is seeking submissions for Issue 6 from all DePaul-affiliated writers writing in all types of creative genres—from poetry to fiction to nonfiction to multimodal pieces.

We are committed to representing and supporting diverse voices, perspectives, and processes, and we encourage submissions from writers of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds, including submissions in languages other than English.

We look forward to reading your work!

Guidelines:

In the spirit of our collaborative literary magazine—one that aims to make the social and iterative nature of writing more tangible and visible—submissions to The Orange Couch must receive feedback through a writing center appointment, Writers Guild, or some combination of these.

• Our submission form will ask you to write a brief reflection on your process of seeking and responding to feedback from others.
• If you’re submitting more than one piece, fill out a separate form per piece. (MAX 2 submissions per person per issue).

Please note:

• If you are submitting a piece in a language other than English, please provide your own translation. TOC editors and Writing Center tutors will not be able to translate any work.
• If you are submitting a multimodal or image-based story, you must provide citations.
• If your multimodal piece contains images, you will be asked to provide alt-text for every image.
• We do not accept/publish Scripts/Screenplays or PowerPoint files. Submissions in this format will not be considered for publication.

If you have any questions about submitting to The Orange Couch, check out our FAQ page and feel free to email the Writing Center or the managing editor, Selena Tomas.

Submission page: https://depaul-writing-center.notion.site/1ae80facf56180128d5ce55b7510f5f3

Spring 2025 CPBL Internship Scholarships

Deadline: March 16, 2025

About:

​The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences’ Community- and Project-Based Learning (CPBL) Internship Scholarship is awarded quarterly to students working on a project for an internship at a non-profit, non-governmental, or governmental organization. Students in LAS undergraduate (including double majors and minors) and Master’s programs who meet the qualifications are encouraged to apply!

Project-based learning is an approach to education that allows students to apply their classroom experiences and learning to projects of benefit to a community partner or internship site.

Internships during the regular academic year must be credit bearing, though the amount of credit earned through the associated course is up to the student and their academic or internship advisor to determine. Associated courses may be formal internship courses, independent studies, or content courses, as appropriate to the student’s degree program.

All awards are issued as scholarships to the student’s tuition account. Please speak with Student Accounts to confirm what impact this will have on your tuition account and how money will be disbursed if there are no current tuition charges.

If you have questions regarding extenuating financial circumstances, please contact Molly Bailey in the LAS Office of Dean at: mbench@depaul.edu.

Guidelines:

In your scholarship application, you must clearly describe the project(s) you will be working on during your internship. When applying, it is also essential that you articulate the connection between your project and the work of the community organization for whom you are interning.

Eligible projects are activities that result in a concrete product of some kind. There are many different types of projects that result in all kinds of products (sometimes called deliverables). In addition, your contribution to the project should require your independent or creative effort and result in something over which you can rightly claim at least partial ownership.

Projects should be designed to be responsive to both the needs of the internship site and your personal or professional interests. Ideally, the project will unite the needs of the organization with your skills and goals. This allows you to contribute directly to the work of the organization and deepen your understanding of that organization’s mission, constituencies, and/or challenges.

Projects are thus not the same thing as a list of tasks, nor are they the same thing as a job description. Qualities of eligible projects include those that are:

• Team-based, in which you work collaboratively with several people at your internship site on all aspects of the project.
• Mostly independent, in which you work on aspects of a larger project to which many individuals are contributing.
• Entirely independent, which you alone are responsible for.
• Started and completed during your internship.
• Started and completed within your internship period, but others may have begun before you joined the effort and continue beyond your internship’s tenure.

The project should be a vehicle for independent learning and growth through which you can develop and improve your skills in critical thinking, written and/or oral communication, and collaboration.

Some examples of project-based activities include (but are not limited to):

• developing tutoring plans or curricula
• developing new processes or protocols
• developing training modules or manuals
• developing and/or designing statistical models, maps, or surveys
• designing and/or conducting research
• developing and/or producing specialty materials
• designing and/or mounting exhibits, performances, or events
• creating and/or supporting the creation of an archive
• planning and/or writing white papers, newsletters, or other texts
• designing and/or creating websites or multi-media presentations
• designing and/or conducting program evaluations

If you have questions about whether your internship is project-based, please first contact your faculty sponsor and internship site to discuss. Internship sites are often willing to work with interns and their faculty sponsors to co-design a project if one does not already exist. Questions can also be directed to Associate Dean Margaret Storey in the College of LAS at mstorey@depaul.edu.

Internships where your primary duties involve regular, repeated tasks or clinical/educational interactions do not result in a concrete deliverable. These types of internships can provide great learning experiences but are generally not consistent with project-based learning.

Examples of non-project-based activities:

• routine clerical tasks
• routine intake or distribution processes
• tutoring
• learning only through observation of processes others are executing
• maintaining or updating records that are part of day-to-day business

You are eligible to apply if you meet the following requirements:

• You are a currently enrolled rising sophomore, junior, senior, or Master’s student in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. (Students whose home college is not LAS, but who have a double major or minor in a program within LAS, are eligible.)
• You are in good academic and disciplinary standing with the University.
• You have not received another scholarship for this internship (internships for which you are receiving wages from the internship site are eligible).
• You are committed to an internship of at least 10 weeks in length. (Please do not apply if you cannot make this 10-week committment.)
• You have communicated with a faculty member in the College fo LAS about your internship; if required, this person could verify details about your poject.
• Your internship consists of substantial project work that is related to your aacdemic skills or interests and designed in collaboration with the internship site.
• Your internship will take place at a domestic or international non-profit, non-governmental organization, or government entity.

No internship with a DePaul office, center, or affiliated project is eligible for the CPBL scholarship. However, students are allowed to work within DePaul while holding an internship external to DePaul.

For full FAQs, click here.

Submission page:

Applicants for CPBL scholarships must complete our online scholarship application with DePaul Scholarship Connect, as follows:

1. Please upload your unofficial transcript.
2. Are you receiving a scholarship for this internship already?
3. Please upload your current resume. For help, please reference the DePaul Career Center, https://resources.depaul.edu/career-center/resumes-interviews/Pages/resumes.aspx.
4. For summer awards, your internship does not have to be credit-bearing. Please indicate if you are completing this internship for a course over the summer (what is the name/number) or if the intenrship is not credit bearing.
5. Describe your host organization (or intended host) and its mission.
6. Describe the project(s) that you will undertake during the internship. Be specific as to what you will contribute or be responsible for, and clearly outline the deliverable or expected outcome of the project. Internships without clearly defined projects will not be funded. Should you have questions about what defines a project, please refer to the FAQs. You may also discuss this with your faculty advisor/sponsor.
7. Internship supervisor’s name and email. If you do not have it at this time, please indicate that in your response.
8. How does this internship relate to your academic interests and what do you hope to learn that will enhance your education?
9. How might this internship impact your future plans, including your career or vocational goals?
10. Please provide the name of the DePaulaul faculty member or internship coordinator who is familiar with this internship and your academic goals. This is most likely the person overseeing the placement and assessment of the internship. If this is for a class, it is usually the faculty member teaching the class, but in some units that is not the case. If this is not for a class, this will be the person at DePaul that can certify the academic nature of this internship. This is NOT a recommendation letter. You are providing a key academic contact who is familiar with your internship arrangements.