Grants and Awards

The Gordon Summer Fellowship at Newcomb-Tulane College

Female applicants should apply through the Newcomb College Institute. Click here for more information and an application.

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The Gordon Summer Fellowship offers grants to one male and one female Newcomb-Tulane College student for an innovative summer project designed for intellectual and personal growth. The grant is offered on a competitive basis each spring, and students awarded the grant money will use it during the following summer. Preference will be given to those students whose plans have substantial intellectual and/or academic merit, whose goals are clearly defined, and whose budgets are sound. The amount of the grant for 2008 is $3,000.

Purpose
Grants may be used by students for many different purposes, including but not limited to travel for research, support for field work, empirical data gathering, or even learning more about a new culture by performing community service in a community new to them.

Grants may not support any credit-bearing internships or credit-bearing activities. The grant must be used solely for independent work or study that is not required as part of a course of instruction.

Students will be asked, upon their return, to share the results of their activities with students, faculty, and staff members of the college and university, perhaps in a panel discussion, a seminar format, an exhibition, a publication, or in some other creative way.

Proposed projects should

• provide character development and/or life-altering, resume-building experiences,
• engage students in the pursuit of creative thinking,
• engage students in a culture/cultures with which they are not familiar,
• be innovative, bold, and involve experiential learning.

Eligibility
Eligible applicants must

• be at least eighteen years old by the end of the spring semester immediately prior to the summer project,
• demonstrate an intention to return to and graduate from Newcomb-Tulane College (not to transfer to another university),
• be a Newcomb-Tulane College sophomore or junior,
• have a minimum grade point average of 2.0,
• be in good standing,
• provide a letter of support from a faculty sponsor.

Restrictions
• A student may receive only one such fellowship during his/her years at Newcomb-Tulane College.
• Students must read and sign all required release and waiver forms before the grant will be awarded.
• This grant may be deemed to be taxable income to the recipient. Each recipient should read relevant IRS publications.

Application
Male students* will submit their proposals to the Newcomb-Tulane College Office of Cocurricular Programs, on the second floor of Cudd Hall. The deadline for the submission of proposals is April 11, 2008; announcement of the winner of the grant will follow shortly thereafter.

The application must contain the application form and a proposal, not to exceed three (3) pages, which discusses in detail:

• the project description - the goal of the project, how the goal will be met, the location and scope of the project, defined duties and objectives, and the anticipated outcome;
• the significance of the project - what the project means to you personally and educationally; how it will help to identify, define, or affect your personal and/or professional goals;
• a description of how you plan to share the results with students, faculty, and staff members of the college and university;
• any particular qualifications you possess that are applicable to the project;
• budget estimate - an itemized budget including rationale and all costs, e.g., travel, lodging, supplies. (Please show this as last on the project proposal. The budget must be realistic and concrete, including the cost of living away from home, if applicable. It should also include the names and addresses of any contacts/connections you have made with hosts/sponsors in your destination, not merely an estimate of possible costs. Those proposals with the most realistic budgets will be looked upon most favorably.);
• a letter of support from a faculty sponsor.

*Female students should apply through the Newcomb College Institute; the deadline for these applications is March 3, 2008.