2024-2025 Graduate Public Service Fellowship
Graduate Public Service Fellowship Program
Haas Center for Public Service
Description
In partnership with the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education, the Haas Center for Public Service offers the Graduate Public Service (GPS) Fellowship as a space for graduate students to cultivate their skills, commitments, and identities as community-engaged scholars.
The GPS Fellowship creates a supportive, transdisciplinary network of students who share an interest in public scholarship, scholar-activism, and community engagement. Through the fellowship experience, students participate in a community of practice designed to promote relational and reflective learning and a community of purpose that supports the explicit discussion of values and identities and the exploration and application of social, intellectual, and political commitments to scholarly practice.
The GPS program embraces and encourages participants to bring their whole selves into the fellowship experience (including their personal experiences, values, and standpoints) in order to nurture identities and commitments as community engaged scholars. Cohort activities emphasize collaborative learning, relational skill building, and reflection on values and positionality because such practices are essential for building trust and fostering equity-focused collaborations with community partners in ways that are transformational rather than transactional.
The GPS fellowship program integrates a practicum experience in which Fellows serve in teams (with grad peers) on a collaborative, action-oriented research project with a local community-based organization or coalition partner. The experience is designed to provide Fellows with the opportunity to participate, from start to finish, in a research design process that is driven by the community partner’s interests, needs, or desires and that prioritizes core equity-based principles such as shared goals and values; a focus on community strengths (asset-based); equitable collaboration; collective benefit; trusting relationships; and accessible results. Fellows are expected to commit approximately 2 hours per week over the course of the academic year to the project. Fellows may express interest to participate in a project that addresses community-identified issues in one of four key areas: environmental sustainability, housing equity, educational equity, or health equity.
GPS fellows receive a $3,000 stipend over the course of the academic year to support their participation in the fellowship and the fellowship-related research project.
Whether you are interested in a future faculty position, or planning to pursue a non-academic career pathway, the GPS experience provides space to explore the intersection of your professional and community-engaged goals and to integrate public scholarship practices into your professional repertoire.
HOW TO APPLY
Applications for the GPS Fellowship open on April 17, 2024, for the 2024-25 academic year. Applications are due on May 31, 2024. Questions? Contact Clayton Hurd (churd@stanford.edu)
- Participate in a fall quarter seminar focused on promising practices and design strategies for equity-focused, community engaged research
- Collaborate with graduate student peers in the co-design and carrying out of a team-based, community-driven research project in partnership with a local community organization or coalition (building on existing community partner relationships with the Haas Center)
- Attend bi-weekly cohort meetings through the academic year to develop your knowledge and skills related to theories, methodologies, and ethics of community engaged scholarship through visits by guest speaker/role models, discussions of seminal scholarship, case studies, and cohort-wide reflections on practice, values, and skills-in-development
A complete application includes the following:
- application form
- curriculum vitae
- unofficial transcript
- endorsement from primary graduate advisor(s) - see application for more details on what this entails
Stanford graduate students from all departments and programs who are considering careers in higher education or in professional fields that integrate and value community engagement are eligible to apply. Through academic accomplishments, commitment to community work, and teaching/mentoring experience, candidates must demonstrate potential to become successful community-engaged scholar-practitioners.
For additional information, please contact Clayton Hurd at clayton.hurd@stanford.edu.
