Fellowship Overview
The project looked for applicants with an undergraduate background in and who were interested in studying at a graduate level:
- Immigration politics and policy
- Transnational studies
- Comparative politics
- Urban politics and public policymaking
- Community groups
- International conflict and forced migration
- Human rights
The fellowship includes five years of in-state tuition support. In year one, the Fellow will receive a $15,000 stipend, and in year two s/he will receive a $5,000 stipend. The Fellow will also be awarded a teaching position at one of the CUNY colleges in years three, four, and five of his or her studies. When the Fellow begins the teaching component of the award, he or she will be appointed as a Graduate Teaching Fellow (GTF). This GTF consists of a 180-contract-hour annual workload at one of the CUNY colleges (equivalent to teaching four 3-credit courses over the academic year).
The participating Fellows will be enrolled as doctoral students in the political science program. They will receive hands-on training in theoretical perspectives and in qualitative and quantitative research methods. They will learn about the logic of the migration process and the vocabulary of the immigrant experience. They will also learn the skills of writing and communicating with non-academic audiences. This highly innovative program will: 1) bring qualitative and quantitative perspectives together on community analysis, 2) train qualitative students to use cutting-edge methodologies of ecological analysis, and quantitatively oriented students to use field research methods, 3) remedy the shortage of people skilled at analyzing the global dimensions of local dynamics, and 4) bridge the gap between scholarly researchers and policy makers and community advocates.