CDL Non CDL Drivers Part-Time

Opportunity Statement

What is the context

Founded in 1982 the United World CollegeUSA is one of 18 United World College (UWC) campuses worldwide and the only campus in the United States. The UWC movement seeks to make education a force to unite people nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future. As such UWCUSA values and promotes all manner of inclusion diversity equity and access as part of our fundamental mission to bring people together across differences in service of a more peaceful and sustainable world. With the IB at the center of our academic program and a strong focus on experiential learning including in a multinational/multicultural boarding environment UWCUSA stretches its students faculty and staff to learn and grow in a multiperspectival community dedicated to democratic processes as reflective of our country location and traditions.

What is the UWCUSA mission

We embrace the UWC mission to make education a force to unite people nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future by preparing students to serve as catalysts for greater unity peace and sustainability in their personal lives in their communities and in their relationship to the environment. We accomplish this through intentional placebased programming an integral approach to our programming and our lives together and ample opportunities for student autonomy and leadership under the guidance of caring staff and faculty.

How is UWCUSA unique

Our participation in the UWC movement and our philanthropybased educational model distinguish UWCUSA among international boarding schools. As a UWC twoyear school we recruit students through more than 150 National Committees worldwide. Our philanthropybased model makes our educational program widely accessible to students from families with modest financial resources no matter where they live in the world with 85 of UWCUSA students receiving a financial award to attend the school. Together these two advantages allow us to bring together students whose identities experiences and ideas create a microcosm of the world on our campus which is located in rural Northern New Mexico.

What is our point of view

On challenges in the world

UWCs mission began in response to the international tensions of the Cold War. Its mission to bring young people together before their prejudices are solidified in service of peace and a sustainable future is as important as ever. In the world our students know the main obstacles to unity remain differences in identity that too often separate us from one another: nationality culture language religion ethnicity race gender and sexual identity. The main obstacles to peace and sustainability today are not entirely new either but the globalizing forces of our age have reshaped them. No matter where our students come from they increasingly see these challenges up close in local national or international settings:

• Economic political and social inequality between those at the center and those on the margins of societies worldwide;
• Political polarization rooted in ideology grievance and uneven democratic practice/ institutions;
• Climate change ecosystem destruction and biodiversity collapse resulting from destructive modes of production consumption and land use.

In this global context our students face the more personal challenge of growing into healthy young adults and thoughtful leaders amid real cultural social and educational tensions worldwide:

• Just as they embrace the great diversity of people and cultures in the world they feel the powerful forces of assimilation and homogenization that threaten local identities and the wisdom they contain.
• New social identities relationships and networks are welcome at this age but the bonds of affection and solidarity are weakened by the intrusion of markets and the media in their personal and interpersonal spheres.
• Twentyfirstcentury technologies increasingly available to schools are changing exponentially yet they need connections with adults and one another to ground them.
• The global marketplace and new technologies will continue to transform our students relationships with others learning and work presenting both new opportunities and new obstacles for their personal wellbeing in the world.

On opportunities in international boarding school education

The UWC boarding school was founded primarily to facilitate international and intercultural understanding by bringing young people from all over the world to live and learn together. Its early partnership in the creation of the International Baccalaureate made it a pioneer in inquirybased learning. Its focus on experiential learning and the importance of diversity also established it as a pioneer. Today there is a greater variety of educational models in the international boarding school sector than ever before. This development encourages all international boarding schools including UWCUSA to think creatively within and beyond the predominant models we have inherited. UWCUSA is a full participant in an ongoing dialogue across UWC International and the International Baccalaureate Office (IBO) about new educational directions that best meet the opportunities and challenges of our age.

What is the role

Drivers are needed for the following:

• In town trips
• Out of town trips
• Days and evenings
• Weekdays and weekends

What are the key details

• 30 faculty and 60 staff
• 240 students in grades 11 and 12 admitted on the basis of merit promise and potential through over 150 National Committees worldwide and a Global Selection Process run as a partnership between schools and UWC International
• 1:8 facultytostudent ratio with class sizes ranging from 820 students
• Roughly twenty percent of the students come from the U.S.; the remainder represent more than 80 countries
• 85 of UWCUSA students receive a financial award to attend the school; the average award is $33000 per year
• Diversity and the value placed on it is paramount with national diversity only scratching the surface; racial ethnic cultural linguistic religious sexual gender and socioeconomic diversity all figure large in the opportunity and challenge to work learn and live within our diverse community; cultural competency and sensitivity combined with a willingness to learn and to grow is a must at UWCUSA.
• Key Resources
  • UWCUSA Community Narrative
  • UWCUSA Educational Objectives
  • UWCUSA 202122 School Profile
  • UWCUSA Strategic Plan

Who should apply

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