Fellowships & Grants

Fall Deadlines: October 4, November 8, and December 6, 2021
Spring Deadlines: February 7, March 7, April 4, and May 2, 2022

Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply at least six to eight weeks before the proposed project or initiative date.

Application

Focus: Civic engagement, social justice, activism, on-campus project funding

Eligibility Criteria: Current full-time Lang students and groups that include at least one Lang student. Awards can cover tangible costs or material fees related to applicant projects. Mini-grants cannot be used to pay for compensation of time worked on projects, study abroad program fees, or tuition. However, they can be used to pay for guest speaker honoraria and fees. 

Amount: Individuals can apply for up to $750 in funding per semester; groups can apply for $1,500 per semester. Priority is given to students who have not previously received funding from CESJ.

Endorsement: A faculty, staff, or advisor reference is strongly recommended but not required. 

CESJ Mini-grants are small grants made to individual and groups of students to support student programming, research costs, activism, creative projects, and other work that focuses on social justice or civic engagement. 

Past awards have funded needs like production costs for an exhibition on Salvadoran migration and displacement, supplies for a senior thesis examining displacement in Puerto Rico, travel to the Afro Tech conference, and food for a student-organized conference on urban community and environmental health.

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 15! 

Application

Focus: Compensation of up to $2,500 to assist Lang students who are pursuing unpaid or underpaid summer internships committed to social justice values, practice, and/or scholarship.

Eligibility Criteria: Current full-time Lang students and graduating seniors. Priority will be given to applicants who have not received funding from Lang CESJ in the previous academic year, DACA students, students affected by the executive order travel ban, and applicants with a GPA of 3.0 or higher. Eligible internships include part-time and full-time internships (any location) that require at least 160 hours over the course of the summer, would otherwise be unpaid, and are dedicated to a social justice mission. Applicants should have been offered internships by the time they apply.

Amount: Grants of up to $2,500

Endorsement: Contact information for the internship supervisor is required, as they will be contacted during the application process.

Application Components: Application by online form only. Note: The deadline to apply for a CESJ Summer Fellowship has been extended to April 15, 2022.

Lang Civic Engagement and Social Justice (Lang CESJ) dedicates funding to Lang students who are pursuing summer internships committed to social justice values, practice, and/or scholarship. Selected grantees will be required to participate in a mid-summer gathering, complete a written reflection, and present their work at a fall mixer event on campus. Please read the full details on the application form website before applying.

Questions can be directed to [email protected].

CLA courses bring community partners into Lang classrooms. Student fellows support CLA classes while working with distinguished non-faculty professionals in a variety of fields.

Students must be nominated by faculty.

Contact: Please email Civic Liberal Arts director Evan Rapport at [email protected] for more information about the program.   

Application-based opportunity (course credit options available) for students to showcase their research and creative projects on interdisciplinary panels or through posters.

Next Deadline: Fall 2022

Application

Contact: Jennifer Riegle at [email protected]

Fall Deadline: October 29, 2021
Spring Deadline: March 25, 2022
Application

Focus: Civic engagement, social justice, research, study abroad 

Eligibility Criteria: Eligible applicants will:

• Have a minimum 3.0 GPA
• Be matriculated degree students of Eugene Lang College
• Demonstrate financial need

Students receiving federal Pell Grants are given priority consideration.

Amount: A number of awards of up to $5,000 are made every fall and spring semester and every winter and summer break. Funds are limited and are distributed competitively according to the college's judgment of the educational quality and budget of a student's proposal and his or her financial need and academic standing.

Endorsement: A faculty, staff, or advisor reference is strongly recommended but not required. 

Application Components: Personal statement, financial statement, résumé, current academic transcript and financial aid award (printed from MyNewSchool), recommendation

Eugene Lang Opportunity Awards make it easier for students with financial need and academic merit to participate in the many co-curricular programs and initiatives available at Lang. A number of awards up to $5,000 are made every fall and spring semester and every winter and summer break. There are two distinct categories of Opportunity Awards: 

• Innovation Awards are awarded competitively to fund students' self-designed co-curricular and extracurricular educational activities.
• Outreach Awards are awarded competitively to students who need financial assistance in order to take part in institutional co-curricular activities offered by Lang and/or the university, such as those developed by Civic Engagement and Social Justice, Career Development, and Study Abroad.

Full information is available at newschool.edu/lang/opportunity-awards.

Contact: [email protected]

First Year Fellows mentor a class of incoming first-year students to help them make a smooth transition to Lang and engage with the campus community. Fellows lead seminar workshops with their assigned group of first-year students throughout the fall semester and meet weekly in a Teaching and Learning Seminar with other Fellows to develop and strengthen their teaching, mentoring, and facilitation practice. The Teaching and Learning Seminar will be taught by Professor Natalia Mehlman-Petrzela, chair of the First-Year Program.

Fellows help new students make the transition to college by counseling them on good study habits, academic planning, time management skills, critical thinking abilities, seminar discussion techniques, and personal health and safety awareness. They also introduce new students to social justice theory and practice at Lang. Qualified students earn up to three credits for serving as First Year Fellows, following training in May and August and enrollment in the Teaching and Learning Seminar in the fall.

Deadline: February 4, 2022

Application

Contact: Natalia Mehlman-Petrzela, [email protected]

In the Global Studies program, we want to create a space to reflect critically on what the COVID-19 pandemic will leave in its wake: the fears, the authoritative measures, and the moral panics as well as the forms of solidarity, the intimacies, and the alliances.

We are currently in a moment of crisis, but once it is over, how will we remember this pandemic? What will we choose to remember? What will become normalized, and what will never feel normal again? What will remain, and what will fade away?

Archiving and other ways of preserving memory are crucial to the work we do in our program. We choose not to forget, and we hold ourselves accountable to the past and the future. As part of this process, we call for student submissions in any form (diary entries, essays, pictures, illustrations, films, research papers, audio recordings, Twitter threads, etc.) that constitute reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, and upon review, selected submissions will be featured in the Global Studies Newsletter and other department materials; all submissions will be archived on a program hard drive for future research and posterity. Submissions will be selected for the newsletter or inclusion in other materials by the program at its discretion. By submitting materials, students are granting the Global Studies program permission to use the submission in its own materials.

Deadline: For spring 2022, we are accepting submissions (without awards) on a rolling basis for our COVID-19 archive.

Contact: [email protected]

Competitive merit-based fellowship of up to $5,000 for Interdisciplinary Science majors and minors interested in science and social justice internships and/or research experiences in a justice-focused nonprofit organization or laboratory with connections to the arts, design, communication, education, social science research, or the liberal arts. Students engaging in a learning experience that could benefit from funding during the academic year should inquire about their eligibility. Rolling applications with soft deadlines during COVID as priority: April 15 for summer, September 15 for fall, December 15 for spring.

Application

Contact: Katayoun Chamany at [email protected]

Qualified students work with a faculty mentor who is teaching an introductory-level science and/or math course to host outings and study sessions, build community among students, identify learning challenges in the course, and offer peer tutoring for students in the class. For students interested in pursuing science and math education in combination with communication, media, art, policy, and education studies, this program offers an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the challenges associated with science and math learning and current best practices in pedagogies of engagement and assessment of student learning through a weekly education seminar course.

This fellowship is typically offered in the spring term.

Deadline: Students must be nominated by faculty.

Contact: Katayoun Chamany at [email protected]

Deadline: February 25, 2022

Application

Contact: [email protected]

Focus: Engaged learning, research, theory, practice

Eligibility Criteria: Current second-year, third-year, and fourth-year BA/BFA students at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts with a strong academic record in social sciences

Amount: Fellows receive a $2,250 stipend.

Application Components: Applicants must submit their résumé with relevant experience, a cover letter, and a writing sample and must indicate at least two preferred internship sites. Students will be notified in the spring if they have been selected for an interview.

This fellowship provides a unique opportunity to combine research, theory, and practice. It requires the ability to work independently over the summer and throughout the fall semester. This fellowship provides a rare chance for students to develop their research and writing skills through individual mentoring and feedback on their work. The fellowship has three components:

• An internship of at least 100 hours over four weeks, designed to connect students' academic interests to organizations in related fields 
• Work with an NSSR PhD student throughout the fellowship to develop and conduct a research project related to the summer internship
• A four-credit independent study course in the spring term, during which students work with their research mentor to complete a research paper

Visit the webpage for more information.

Rolling Deadline - Open until May 9, 2022
Students enrolled at Eugene Lang College can apply for funds of $2,000 to support their unpaid internships.
Contact: [email protected]

Requirements/qualifications:

• Internship is secured (proof required: email from internship supervisor/coordinator).
• Internship is unpaid (proof required: email from internship supervisor/coordinator).
• The student is a current Lang student (graduating students can apply for only the semester after graduation).
  • First Year students need permission from the Student Success academic advisor.
  • International students must be eligible for curricular practical training (CPT). Learn more at the ISSS's Employment page.
• Internships can be for credit or noncredit.
• Internships must be a minimum of 120 hours.
• Students can only receive this grant once.
• Students cannot receive a Eugene Lang Opportunity Award or a CESJ Summer Fellowship for the same internship.

Students who receive the grant are required to:

• Submit an Experience Learning Agreement (ELA), register their internship with the Office of Career Services, and complete all requirements (the zero-credit registration fee will be covered for students who are applying for an internship when not enrolled in courses)
• Review the internship skills video and complete the Orientation Prep Quiz after viewing
• Complete the Unpaid Internship Support Grant final report/reflection form
  
  

Application timeline and process:

Students can apply at any point from now until May 9, 2022.
Applications will be reviewed within two weeks.
Internships should be completed by the start of the fall 2022 semester.