2012 Global Citizenship Student Award Application

2012 GCCA Application

Nominating a Student for the GCSA

The Mission of the Institute for Global Citizenship
To encourage, promote and support rigorous learning that prepares students for lives as effective and ethical "global citizen-leaders"; innovative scholarship that enriches the public and academic discourse on important issues of global significance; and meaningful service that enhances such learning and/or scholarship while enriching the communities within which Macalester is embedded.

"Global Citizenship" includes all of the college's core values, internationalism, multiculturalism, civic engagement, and academic excellence, and involves the local, the national, and the international.

The Global Citizenship Award is presented annually by Macalester College to the graduating senior who best demonstrates a commitment to the ideals and practice of high academic performance, internationalism, multiculturalism, and civic engagement. Candidates must be nominated by a Macalester College faculty or staff member. Criteria for nomination and selection include:

• Superior academic achievemen
• Leadership in local, national, and/or international civic contexts
• The student’s ability to articulate their potential future intellectual, personal and/or professional commitments toward advancing their concept of global citizenship

Application Instructions

By Feb. 10, 2012, submit the Global Citizenship Student Award Cover Sheet to the Internship Office.

By Feb. 24, 2012, submit your full application file, including the following:

1. A current resume or curriculum vita (please limit this to one page)


2. An essay of 1200-1500 words in which you address the following:

Share your personal definition of global citizenship and describe how your academic work, scholarship, and experiences have informed and reflected that definition.

Address how you have put this definition of global citizenship into action through leadership, service, and engagement activities on and off campus.  Include in this description how you have woven internationalism, multiculturalism, and civic engagement into your academic and experiential development.

Assess how your engagement with global citizenship at Macalester connects with your future plans.


3. A major, graded, academic project (e.g. essay, research paper, creative or artistic work) prepared for a class at Macalester that connects your scholarship to the ideals of global citizenship. 

   This must be accompanied by a Prologue that provides context and rationale for the selection of this particular work.  Please use the “Prologue for Academic Project” format sheet included in this packet.

Written projects should be no longer than 20-pages in length; other creative presentations should be equivalent in substance and submitted in a viewable, electronic format.

4. Two (2) letters of recommendation, at least one of which must be from a faculty or staff member who can speak to your contributions and achievements in the area of global citizenship.  The letter nominating you counts as one of the letters.

Deadline:
All application materials must be submitted electronically to porter@macalester.edu as e-mail attachments.  Please note the two deadlines stipulated above. 

Upon review, the Selection Committee will identify three finalists for a public presentation in the latter part of March  (exact date TBD).  The winner will be announced and the formal presentation of the award made at the Spring Student Awards Convo.

If you have questions, please contact Michael Porter, Internship Director, at 651-696-6251 or porter@macalester.edu.