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The Lilly Project provides the opportunity for a group of students to explore how they will live as global citizens serving their ethical and/or religious commitments in a complex world. The program grants students space to try out new practices in relation to work, relationship, the local community, and the environment.
Students live together engaging in research or an internship in line with their vocation, yet equally commit to learning, supporting and being influenced by other student’s work for the broader common good.
There are four inter-connected values that students involved in these summer experiences will be committed. Each project will reflect one or more of these areas. They are:
Social Responsibility – an understanding that every sector has an obligation to maximize its positive impact and minimize its negative impact on society.
Environmental Sustainability – a parallel care and respect for the ecosystem and for the people within.
Vocational Exploration – continuous examination of how our deepest commitments contribute to composing our life’s work.
Intentional Community – exploring the dynamics of community living that holds a common vision and shares both responsibility and resources to better each member.
These aspirations will be the aim of students' actions throughout the summer and will be a part of the academic and internships' focus. Though a student might enter the program with an interest or project focusing on one specific area, each student must commit to spending the summer learning and growing in all four areas. These four values will be factored into such things as decisions the community makes in their shared living, questions one brings to their internship sites, attitude in which one conducts their research and individuals whom are invited into the community as mentors and teachers.
Mentoring and Common Living
Two key components of this program are 1) opportunities for mentoring and 2) sharing a common living space for the summer. Mentoring will occur through faculty, staff and site supervisors serving as advisors to the program to offer weekly seminars over dinner with students including readings, discussion and visits to sites in the Twin Cities that address the four values. The Fellows will live together in a house on campus. The residential component assumes that learning and reflection occurs through informal engagement and mutual interest in the projects students are taking up. It is possible to have a cluster of internships and research project focus on one theme in order to have common engagement among several participants.
Expectation
Students will do full-time work on their projects for the 10 weeks of the program (May 21 through July 30) and attend a three-day orientation from May 21-23. Full-time internships are 35 hours per week and the research project will likely exceed the 35 hours of work expected of interns. In addition, a minimum of five hours per week will be spent in facilitated group reflection. Research Fellows will present a scholarly paper or project at the end of the program. Intern Fellows will prepare a poster and reflection paper on their summer experience. Projects will be shared at a gathering the following academic year as well as represent the Lilly Project at public forums.
Number of Awards
Up to five research and five internships will be awarded annually.
Stipend
$3,500 per award plus housing on campus and a weekly group meal will be provided.
Who is eligible?
Rising juniors and seniors at Macalester College are eligible for the program.
More information.....
For more information on becoming a Lilly Summer Research Fellow, contact Lucy Forster-Smith at forstersmith@macalester.edu or x6293 or click here to read more.
For more information about becoming a Lilly Internship Fellow, contact Eily Marlow at marlow@macalester.edu or x6738 or click here to read more.
Click here for application timeline.
Click here for research application.
Click here for internship application.
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