The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center (CLAGS) is looking for an intern. We would be happy to work with colleges to create internships for which students receive class credit.

CLAGS was founded in 1991 as the first university-based research center in the United States dedicated to the study of historical, cultural, and political issues of vital concern to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and communities. By sponsoring public programs and conferences, offering fellowships to individual scholars, and functioning as an indispensable conduit of information through our two web projects, OutHistory and the International Resource Network, CLAGS serves as a national center for the promotion of scholarship that fosters social change.

Much of what goes on in the CLAGS office is fairly standard administrative and clerical work.
The most basic intern tasks would be:

• help with photocopying
• check voice mail and forward to appropriate mailboxes
• check email and forward
• update outreach venue lists
• create and post flyers on and off campus (primarily CUNY campuses)
• purchase refreshments for events

• create organizational system for CLAGS Archive
• scan and digitally store Past Fellowships Recipient applications
• participate in mailings
• provide data entry on filemaker database

• compiling bodies of information in order to be able to reach our members more effectively, i.e.
• CLAGS LGBT Studies certificate alumni
• Event alumni (presenters)
• Board alumni
• Fellowship/award alumni
• working with our Development Director on creating a narrative of CLAGS' growth for development purposes
• web searches for grant opportunities
• Social networking: Twitter, Facebook, etc.