Dissertation Fellowships in Education
Sponsor
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
Description
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Invites Applications for Dissertation Fellowships in
Education
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation<http://www.jkcf.org/> works to help high-achieving,
low-income students - from middle school to graduate school - reach their full
potential through education.
The foundation created its dissertation fellowship program in 2010 to advance its
understanding of the factors and contexts that help low-income students overcome
personal adversity and challenging socioeconomic circumstances to excel
academically. The foundation plans to use this knowledge to design programs and
interventions that help more low-income students identified as high-achieving in
their primary and secondary school years to sustain their achievement levels through
college and beyond.
The fellowships are intended to support doctoral students for work done after the
successful defense of their dissertation proposals. Although applicants must be
candidates for a doctoral degree at a graduate school in the United States, they
need not be U.S. citizens. Applications are encouraged from a variety of
disciplines, including but not limited to education, sociology, economics,
psychology, statistics, and psychometrics.
The fellowship is a one-time award of up to $25,000, which may be used for a period
of not less than nine months and up to eighteen months. Four fellowships will be
awarded.
Complete program information and the application form are available at the Cooke
Foundation Web site.
http://www.jkcf.org/scholarships/graduate-scholarships/jack-kent-cooke-dissertation-fellowship-award/
Deadline: February 3, 2012
Link to Full Announcement
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=362300001 |
