Deadline: December

It seeks proposals from advanced graduate students who are from racial and ethnic groups that are underrepresented in higher education. The Fellowship Program encourages studies that examine a wide range of education research topics such as students’ school experiences, STEM education and learning, ethnic studies/curriculum; tracking; measurement of achievement and opportunity gaps; English language learners; or bullying and restorative justice.

Positive Factors for Selection:

Evidence of superior academic achievement. Degree of promise of continuing achievement as scholars and teachers. Capacity to respond in pedagogically productive ways to the learning needs of students from diverse backgrounds. Sustained personal engagement with communities that are underrepresented in the academy and an ability to bring this asset to learning, teaching, and scholarship at the college and university level. Likelihood of using the diversity of human experience as an educational resource in teaching and scholarship. Membership in one or more of the following groups whose underrepresentation in the American professoriate has been severe and longstanding: Alaska Natives (Aleut, Eskimo, or other Indigenous People of Alaska); Black/African Americans; Mexican Americans/Chicanas/Chicanos; Native American Indians. Native Pacific Islanders (Hawaiian/Polynesian/Micronesian); Puerto Ricans.

Stipend: $27,000 for three years.

Deadline: January

is committed to supporting the research training of promising doctoral students from a wide range of disciplines, taking up research relevant to the improvement of education. Funded by Spencer, but administered through the National Academy of Education, the $27,500 fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and productive perspectives to the history, theory, analysis, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world.

The deadline for this competitive program is in the fall of each year.

The Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. These $27,500 fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, analysis, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world.

Curriculum Inquiry Writing Fellowship and Writers' Retreat

The Editors of Curriculum Inquiry are pleased to invite nominations for Curriculum Inquiry Writing Fellowship (CIWF) and Writers’ Retreat, to be hosted by the Editorial Team of CI and held in Toronto. Up to eight fellows will be selected to participate in this writers’ retreat and workshop, which will provide a series of writing workshops, feedback sessions, opportunities for mentorship by established scholars, and writing over five days, culminating in potential publication in a future issue of Curriculum Inquiry.

Nominations Due February

This program provides fellowships to students of superior academic ability—selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise—to undertake study at the doctoral and Master of Fine Arts level in selected fields of arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Deadline January