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Post-Baccalaureate Fellowships
Post-Baccalaureate
Fellowships will partner Saint Mary’s graduates with Indiana
companies, government agencies, or non-profit organizations looking
to hire at least one additional college-educated employee. Students
interested in this opportunity, their external partners, and the
College will work together, prior to the student’s graduation,
to develop a plan to use this opportunity to create a temporary
position for the student at the partnering organization.
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An Example of
This Type of Fellowship...
A
senior political science major, who currently is interning
at the St. Joseph County Court, has provided an example
of what one of these fellowships might look like.
If
given the opportunity, she would be interested in working
with the court, or a related non-profit partner in the legal
services arena, to create a temporary position that would
allow her to continue to work in public interest law in
Indiana after graduation.
This
student is an Indiana native who would like to remain in
the state, but is not sure that she will be able to secure
a job in Indiana because of the current budgetary constraints
on legal services organizations.
This fellowship would provide her partnering organization
with the time necessary to explore ways in which it could
add her to its regular payroll after the fellowship ended. |
Specifically,
an Indiana Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship will provide a Saint
Mary's graduate and her partnering organization with a grant of
$12,750 to help support the creation of a new position for a college
graduate. The overall goal of this program is to develop meaningful
economic opportunities in Indiana for college graduates.
The partnering
organizations that receive these sub-grants will agree to use
this opportunity to create a new position and must present a sound
plan for sustaining the position if the fellowship is successful.
Saint Mary’s will provide the partnering organizations involved
in successful applications with a one-time, external sub-grant.
They will use this sub-grant to pay for the salary and fringe
benefits associated with the new temporary position. The students
involved in these partnerships will complete their fellowship
with their partnering organization within one year of their graduation.
Preference
will be given to proposals that use matching funds from the partnering
organization to augment or extend the fellowship period.
It should
be noted that these fellowships are not intended to create new
positions at companies or organization with the financial resources
to undertake expansion on their own.
Please review
below eligibility requirements, information
on resources and number
of awards available, as well as the selection
process, and application guidelines.
Eligibility
Partnerships
eligible for Indiana Post-Baccalaureate Fellowships will
consist
of a Saint MaryÕs graduate (a student on schedule to graduate
in May of the current academic years)
and a business, government agency, or non-profit organization
located in Indiana.
The business, government agency, or non-profit organization that
partners with a Saint Mary's graduate must demonstrate a need
for this new position and an ability to sustain the position
beyond
the end of the grant.
Resources
Available
Indiana
Post-Baccalaureate Fellowships will provide a direct grant of
$12,750 to the partnering organization of a successful applicant.
These funds must be used to pay for the start-up costs associated
with creating a new position for the applicant at the partnering
organization.
Number
of Awards Available
There
will be four (4) Indiana Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship available
for the Class of 2007 and 2008.
Application/Selection
Process
Complete
applications must be submitted to the Office of the Director.
Please call x4775 for the application deadline for the current
academic year.
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Post-Baccalaureate
Fellowship Application
Guidelines
Complete applications will consist of:
- A cover letter signed by the graduating senior or recent graduate involved in the partnership that identifies the applicant and all of her proposed partners;
- A description of the position that will be developed as a result of this Fellowship and the plans for creating and sustaining this position (see below for specific limitations and criteria);
- A resume of no more than two pages that describes the graduating senior or recent graduate involved in the partnership;
- A description of the partnering organization (this description should be limited to one page);
- A detailed position description for the proposed new position
- A letter from the Chief Executive of the partnering organization that commits the partnering organization to continuing the new position beyond the end of the grant.
Descriptions
of Position
Descriptions
of the position that will be created as a result of a
Fellowship are limited to
two (2) single-spaced pages with one-inch margins and
a font size of no less than 12.
These descriptions should address the following items:
- The position that will be developed;
- The qualifications of the Saint Mary's graduate for this position;
- How this position matches with the career goals of the Saint Mary's graduate;
- The need for the position at the partnering organization;
- How the partnering organization will support the professional development of the Saint Mary's graduate
- The plan for sustaining this position beyond the end of the grant.
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Questions?
For
more information about INC @ SMC or any of its programs, please
contact:
Stacie Jeffirs, CCO Director
032 College Student Center
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone (574) 284-4775
sjeffirs@saintmarys.edu
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Indiana
Post-Baccalaureate Fellowships are made possible by a grant from
the Lilly Endowment's Initiative to Promote Opportunity through
Educational Collaborations.
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