Hope you are all doing well. This is a reminder that applications to join the Translator-Interpreter Program (TIP) Executive Board are due this Tuesday, September 19th at 5pm. Please email any applications to translator@cornell.edu.
TIP is a student-run program of the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement that trains bilingual and multilingual Cornell students to serve as volunteer translators/interpreters for community agencies in emergency and non-emergency situations. Certified by Cornell language professors, our volunteers have been serving over 300 community agencies since 2000. Just last semester, we were awarded the Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony, which you can read more about in our article with the Cornell Chronicle.
If you are interested in getting more involved in running the program, joining the TIP Executive Board is a great opportunity to do so. It is not necessary to have attended a Volunteer Training Session yet, although it is definitely recommended! To learn more about our program, you can visit our website on Campus Groups as well. Fluency in another language is not required to serve on the Executive board.
Information about the available positions is included in the attached application form. Please note that you do not have to be a certified volunteer translator/interpreter in order to serve on the Executive Board, so everyone is encouraged to apply. If you are interested, please fill out the attached application found as a PDF at this link and email it to translator@cornell.edu as a PDF by September 19th at 5pm. If you have any questions regarding the positions and application process, please do not hesitate to email us.
Check out this announcement from another language program on campus:
The Einaudi Center’s Foreign Language Introduction Program (FLIP) is heading into local communities to teach children about world cultures and languages. Cornell volunteer teachers will have the opportunity to share short introductory lessons on the foreign languages and cultures they are passionate about. Volunteer teachers should have at least an intermediate knowledge of their chosen language.
To learn more, join them for an orientation on Thursday, September 14 or Monday, September 18. Sign up here! Email outreach@einaudi.cornell.edu with questions.
Best,
Translator Interpreter Program
David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement