This document provides information and guidance for Duke students interested in pursuing post-graduate fellowships. It discusses how to assess fit, research opportunities in different fields such as teaching, government, and health, and provides examples of fellowships done by previous Duke students. Advice includes gathering application materials, crafting a compelling personal statement, and establishing next steps in the application process.
4. Echoing Green: A Bold New World
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5. Imagine these options…
• Teaching in China
• Health research studying infectious and
chronic diseases and community health in
Australia
• Revolutionize ways community
organizations utilize and engage volunteers
via technology
• Conduct after-school dance lessons for
immigrant students to help them adjust to
the US and to an interrupted education
6. What are “working fellowships?”
• Short-term post-graduation professional
experience
• No commitment to graduate study
• Competitive in nature
• Location: anywhere in the world
• Launching pad for next steps
• Prestige, professional development,
responsibility
7. Researching Suitable Opportunities
• How do I determine which fellowships are
right for me?
• What personal resources could I consult?
• Where can I find lists of fellowships to
research?
8. Assess and Reflect…
9 Domains When Considering Fellowships
Knowledge Skills
Goals Values
Environment Relationships
Compensation Location
Challenges & Barriers
9. Resources for your search
• OUSF Scholarships & Fellowships database
• Info sessions on campus
• Handouts
• Career Center
• Your “Board of Advisors”
10. Telling Your Story: Why Me?
• Getting to the application
• Application essay, e.g. personal
statement, project proposal, etc.
• Draft…edit…review…repeat…
12. Examples: Teaching/Education
• Blue Engine Fellowship
• French Embassy Cultural Services Teaching
Assistantship in France
• Indianapolis Teaching Fellows
13. Examples:
Politics, Government, Law, & Policy
• Humanity in Action
• Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship
• Center for California Studies Capital Fellows
Program
14. Examples: Leadership & Business
• Greenlining Fellowship
• Duke Endowment Fellowship
• The Financial Clinic Fellowship Program
16. Examples:
Science, Health, Research, &
Engineering
• UCSF Alliance Health Project Post-bac
Internship
• CDC Public Health Associate Program
• Oak Ridge Institute for Science and
Education (ORISE) Programs for Recent
Graduates
17. Examples: Social Responsibility
& Social Justice
• Acumen Fund Global Fellows
• Black Male Achievement Fellowship
• Congressional Hunger Center—Bill Emerson
(domestic) and Mickey Leland
(international) Fellowships
18. Examples of
Duke-affiliated Fellowships
• Duke Hart Leadership Program: The Hart
Fellows Program (Sanford School of Public
Policy)
• PathWays Fellows (Duke Chapel)
• Duke Endowment Fellowship Program
• Stephen & Janet Bear Postgraduate
Fellowship in Ethics
19. “What fellowships have other
Duke students done?”
• 2011 Hart Fellow, Edwin Coleman: “Get
Involved in Education” — worked with Extra
Mural Education Project in Khayelitsha
(township in Cape Town, South Africa)
• 2010-2012 Duke Endowment Fellow, Heather
Collins: focused on access and retention of
first-gen, low-income, and minority students
in higher education
20. “What fellowships have other
Duke students done?” (con’t.)
• 2011-2013 Global Health Corps Fellow, Alexa
Monroy: through position at Inter-American
Bank, traveled to Central American countries
assisting with projects focused on priority
child and maternal health issues
•2008 Humanity in Action Fellow, Sharon
Obialo: as Senior HIA Fellow, studied sex-
trafficking among African women in Berlin
21. Action Steps
• What are three next steps for your search?
For example:
– Assess
– Resources
– Networking
– Nonprofit & Government Career Fair @ Oct. 17
– Career Center appointment or drop-in advising
How to know if fellowship right for me: can you write yourself into the action described, mission put forwardPersonal resources: talk with professors, supervisors, alumni to discuss options, how you see yourself fitting into work—those who know you and could discuss your candidacy
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Personal statements or candidate statements, also prompts for response: opportunity for you to show you understand what fellowship requires and how you have come to point of applying, why this a good option—REQUIRES RESEARCH, REFLECTION, SYNTHESIS ON YOUR PART!!!!Writing Studio has workshops, appointments for helping with personal statements, reviewing writing
Resume: Career Center ready to provide assistanceReference: Person who will give a strong positive statement about you and your work-related qualities and experience, e.g. skills, strengths, work ethic, classroom performance, team work, leadership skills, etc. Recommendation: Written statement supporting your application for a specific internship program, fellowship, or graduate/professional school; , always addressed to specific programProvide reference or recommender with information about you and the program/position, your resume, other documents submitted in application