The Summer Fellows
Program
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 a community-based project in line with their vocation, yet equally commit to learning, supporting and being influenced by other student’s work for the broader common good.
For more information about the program or applying, attend one of
the half-hour information sessions (All sessions are in Markim Hall – Davis Court):
Wednesday, November 25 - 12 pm
Monday, November 30 - 4:30 pm
Tuesday, December 1 - 12 pm
Thursday, January 28 - 4:30 pm
Friday, January 29 - 12 pm
Common Living
The residential component assumes that learning and reflection occurs through informal engagement and mutual interest in both the questions students bring to the summer and the projects they take up. The Fellows will live together in a house on campus and form an intentional community that discerns common practices to live out throughout the program.
The Fellows live together in a house on campus and form an intentional community
Values in Everyday Life
Through reflection and experiential learning, Lilly Fellows are given 12 weeks to examine and enhance how they express their commitments in their daily living, peer communities and the greater society. Staff and community leaders provide guidance and activities for students to explore their own ideas and practice of the following concepts:
- Integration – living a life where one’s deepest commitments steer one’s everyday practice.
- Vocational Exploration – continuous examination of how our deepest commitments contribute to composing our life’s work.
- Sustainability – the ability to provide for our needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own.
- 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 inform decisions about communal living and factor into project questions shared within the greater community.
Stipend
$3,500 per award plus housing on campus and a weekly group meal will be provided.
Expectation
Fellows will engage in group reflection and personal contemplation on their own vocational and ethical questions. Students will do full-time work on their projects, a total of 35 hours a week for 12 weeks of the program (May 26- Aug 18) and attend a three day orientation from May 26-28. In addition, a minimum of three hours per week will be spent in facilitated group reflection that will include readings and visits to the Twin Cities. Staff, faculty and site supervisors will offer weekly teaching and discussion as dinner guests at the Fellow’s home. Students may not have additional, ongoing employment while serving as a fellow.
2010 Summer Fellows
Application Timeline
Student Applications Due
Monday February 8, 2010 8am
Submit to marlow@macalester.edu
Final Candidates Announced
Monday, February 15, 2010
These individuals receive the final application
Final Application Deadline
Friday, March 5, 2010 - noon
Submit to marlow@macalester.edu
Lilly Summer Fellows Announced
Friday, March 12, 2010
Application Process
All students are required to attend an information session outlining the application process or meet with a Lilly staff person before applying. The first application will ask students to express what ethical and vocational questions and practices they are interested in taking up over the summer. A conceptual description of a project that would support this exploration will also be requested. The first application is due Monday, February 8, 2010 at 8:00 AM. Proposals should be submitted electronically (as a Word attachment) to Eily Marlow in the Lilly Project at marlow@macalester.edu. Application available here>>
Students whose first round applications are selected will be invited to submit a more detailed proposal. Students who will locate their project within an organization will create a joint application with their potential site supervisor. Students whose projects lean towards public scholarship will produce a project proposal with the aid of Paul Schadewald (Associate Director, Civic Engagement Center). Lastly, a short interview will be conducted by the selection committee. Notification of the committee’s decision will be received the week before Spring Break
The Project
Lilly Fellows may choose to imbed their project within a summer internship. Students will select the organization or corporation based on its ability to provide fertile ground for exploring both vocational and ethical questions significant to the student. Students might choose government, business or the non-profit sector (religion, education, social services, advocacy, or the arts). The student and their site supervisor will work together to come up with a project that addresses both the student’s questions and the organization’s need.
Staff and community leaders provide guidance and activities
A Fellow’s personal question might be best addressed through public scholarship. A research question that is vocationally and/or ethically significant to a Fellow may also be deeply relevant to a particular community. This student could identify stakeholders to help hone their question and keep them accountable to the communities' own stake in the answers. This type of project would support and further public dialogue, translating ideas and making them accessible in the spirit of public scholarship. Students whose questions are best met by research are required to do this research in the community through participant observation, interviewing or other community engagement. Students should consult with Paul Schadewald on project design.
Outcomes will be project specific, but all students will prepare a poster and reflection paper on their summer experience. All projects will be shared at a gathering the following academic year as well as represent the Lilly Project at public forums.
Eligibility/Number of Awards
Rising juniors and seniors at Macalester College are eligible for the program. Up to eight fellowships will be granted in 2010. Two of these fellowships are reserved for a Lilly Fellow partner organization.
Lilly Fellow Partnerships
Every year organizations join with the Lilly Project in sponsoring specific opportunities that may address a student’s specific interest or vocational question. These organizations provide outside funding and, if filled, expand the number of participants. Students interested in these positions should contact Eily Marlow to learn about additional application guidelines.
University Bank offers an internship where a student will work to strengthen their socially responsible practices and outreach to the University Avenue neighborhood.
Westminster Presbyterian Church offers an internship working with youth and children. This opportunity would provide practical experience for a student considering church ministry as a vocation.
For more information on becoming a Lilly Summer Fellow contact Eily Marlow at marlow@macalester.edu or x6738.
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