Deadline: May 10, 2007
Lumina Foundation for Education strives to help people achieve their potential by expanding access and success in education beyond high school. Through grants fro research, innovation, communication and evaluation, as well as policy education and leadership development, Lumina Foundation addresses issue that affect access and educational attainment among all students.
Lumina Foundation has provided ASHE with funding for fellowships in the amount of $14,000 to support dissertation research on the broad topics of financial aid, student retention and success, and adult learners and learning. The fellowships will support up to one year of activity that will be conducted through the students’ home universities and can be used to support costs of supplying data, dissemination of project results, travel, tuition, and stipend for the fellows. Participating universities are encouraged but not required to provide tuition remission during the one-year fellowship period.
A critical component of the fellowship program is professional development and mentoring of fellows. To that end, fellows are assigned an established scholar as a mentor in the program, participate in an online community of scholars, and come together twice during the fellowship year - during an ASHE pre-conference session in November and in a summer colloquium at the end of the fellowship year.
Eligibility
Doctoral students affiliated with any accredited doctoral program may submit a proposal. Students in doctoral programs outside the
Proposal Instructions
Applicants must submit an application cover sheet, 4 copies of a current vita, 4 copies of a proposal, and a letter of support from their dissertation director. This letter should indicate that the dissertation proposal has been accepted and the IRB application has been approved, as well as whether or not the university will provide tuition remission during the funding period. The proposal must not exceed 10 double-spaced pages and must also provide an appendix containing a budget that considers student stipends and research expenses. Reference lists and the budget appendix are not included in the 10-page limit.
For a full copy of the 2007 Application Guidelines, see: http://www.ashe.ws/fellowship/guidelines.htm
Applications should be sent to :
Kristen Renn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Higher, Adult, & Lifelong Education
Coordinator, ASHE/Lumina Fellowship Program
428 Erickson Hall