Fellowships & Grants

Updated Deadline for Summer 2020: June 5, 2020
Deadlines for the 2019-2020 academic year: First Friday of every month: February 7, March 6, April 10 (please note that the April mini-grant date has been extended to April 10), and May 1. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply at least six to eight weeks before the proposed project or initiative date.

Website and Application Form

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, activism, creative projects, or other work that focuses on social justice or civic engagement. 

Past awards have funded needs like production for an exhibition on Salvadoran migration and displacement, supplies for a theater project with young women in I Have A Dream Foundation's programs, travel to a reproductive justice conference, and food for a student-organized conference on urban community and environmental health.

Updated Deadline: June 1, 2020

Website and Application Form

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 

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 langcesj@newschool.edu.

Deadline: This deadline has been extended to June 1.

Website and Application Form

Contact: Please email Civic Liberal Arts director Evan Rapport at rapporte@newschool.edu to request an application form. 

Focus: Liberal arts in New York City 

Amount: Student Fellows are compensated on the basis of the type of class they take: 

• 4-credit courses: $1,000 (approximately 50 hours of work per semester)
• 2-credit intensives: $500 (approximately 25 hours of work per semester)

Earn credit and money while you learn. Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts seeks Student Fellows for all Civic Liberal Arts courses offered every semester. These awards are competitive on the basis of demonstrated aptitude in the field of study for which the student has applied. The selected fellows receive stipends for performing supervisory tasks designated by the faculty and the Visiting Fellows, the latter being our community partners in the arts and humanities. Tasks might include research assistance, website design and maintenance, and technological aid and demonstration. This is an unusual opportunity for undergraduate students to assume teaching assistant responsibilities while learning and receiving course credit.  

Application-based opportunity for students to showcase their research and creative projects on interdisciplinary panels or through posters.

Deadline: Fall 2020

Website and Application Form

Contact: Jenn Riegle at RiegleJ@newschool.edu

Deadline: Extended to June 1

If you would like help thinking through and writing your proposal, make an appointment with ELOA graduate assistant Tania Aparicio in October. This is the perfect opportunity to learn how to present and highlight your ideas in a compelling manner, especially if you are new to the process of applying for a grant. 

Application Form
ELOA Proposal-Writing Scheduler (optional)

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: ELOA@newschool.edu

Important Information: The application deadline for First Year Fellows has been extended to Saturday, February 1, 2020, at 11:59 p.m.

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.

Application Deadline (please note that this has been extended): Saturday, February 1, 2020, at 11:59 p.m.

Contact: Patricia Kalidonis at kalidonp@newschool.edu

New applicants, apply here: bit.ly/FirstYearFellows2020

Returning Fellows, apply here: bit.ly/returningfellows2020

Funding for Global Studies majors to study, intern, or carry out self-designed research projects that relate directly to the Global Studies Awards.

Deadline: March 27, 2020

Website and Application

Amount: Up to $500 for research expenses over school breaks

Contact: globalstudies@newschool.edu

Lang Academic Fellows are nominated by faculty to assist with individual courses that the students have previously taken or that they are otherwise qualified to assist with. Fellows work closely with faculty, attend the course on a regular basis, and meet frequently with students taking the course to work with them on their writing, reading, and academic practices. The emphasis of the program is on Academic Fellows' helping students with their broader intellectual, creative, and critical thinking. In addition, Academic Fellows meet once a week in seminar to study the theory and practice of pedagogy. Lang Academic Fellows earn four credits. Please note: An instructor must nominate each Academic Fellow; following the nomination, there is a writing submission and short interview process with the prospective Academic Fellow's instructor. The course is by permission only. For further information, contact Jennifer Firestone, director of Academic Fellows, at firestoj@newschool.edu.

Focus: Providing students with relief for academic expenses related to COVID-19.

Eligibility: Currently enrolled Lang students experiencing financial needs related to the transition to online learning. Applications will be reviewed and decided on on a case-by-case basis. 

Amount: Maximum awards will be $1,500.

The evolving COVID-19 pandemic is affecting every area of life and creating unexpected new realities for many, including Lang students. In response, we have created the Lang Student Emergency Fund (Lang Fund) to help Lang students with funds of up to $1,500 for academic-related expenses. This new fund, managed by Lang’s Office of Civic Engagement and Social Justice, provides students with relief for expenses related to improving their learning conditions. Relief funds can help cover academic expenses such as laptop and accessories, software, utility bills for Internet or phone access, materials for projects, subscription fees for research, and textbooks. Students who are facing challenges to their learning environment because of COVID-19 and need financial assistance to address those challenges are encouraged to apply. Learn more.

Application: Submit your request to the Lang Student Emergency Fund here.

Questions or concerns can be directed to Natasha Rivera, Assistant Director of the Office of Civic Engagement and Social Justice, at riveran@newschool.edu.

Lang Education Abroad Diversity (LEAD) Fellowship

Awarded by Lang's Office of Global Programs to support approved Lang study abroad experiences. 

Deadline: February 7, 2020

Website and Application

Focus: Civic engagement, global learning

Eligibility Criteria: Current full-time Eugene Lang College students 

NOTE: February 7, 2020, is also the deadline to apply to all approved Lang study abroad programs for summer 2020, fall 2020, and spring 2021. Read more about studying abroad and how to apply.

Competitive merit-based fellowship that enables students who are interested in science and social justice work but who cannot accommodate an unpaid internship or research experience to build professional/STEM skills in a justice-focused nonprofit organization that can also make connections to arts, design, communication, and social research. Existing partners include Public Health Solutions and the New York Academy of Medicine. More partners are being developed, and students can identify their own organizations for review as well.

Deadline: March 23, 2020

Website and Application Form

Contact: Katayoun Chamany at chamanyk@newschool.edu

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 ChamanyK@newschool.edu

Deadline (please note that this deadline has been extended): January 21, 2020

Webpage and Application Form

Contact: Jane McNamara, mcnamajb@newschool.edu

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 $2,000 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 February 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:

• A summer 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 fall term, during which students work with their research mentor to complete a research paper

Visit the webpage for more information.