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Please note the availability of the following fellowships:



MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY

ARNOLD L. MITCHEM DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS

General Information

            Marquette University is pleased to offer a fellowship program named in honor of Dr. Arnold L. Mitchem, internationally-recognized champion for educational opportunity. A Marquette alumnus (Ph.D., Education, 1981), Dr. Mitchem founded Marquette’s Educational Opportunity Program and served as its Director from 1969-86. Since 1986 he has been President of the Council for Opportunity in Education in Washington D.C.  The Mitchem Fellowship program honors Dr. Mitchem’s contributions and convictions by offering another avenue by which to advance his goal to move a highly educated, critical-thinking, articulate, and compassionate cadre of women and men of color into our citizenry to bring about authentic democratic change.

            The primary goal of the Arnold L. Mitchem Dissertation Fellowship Program is to help increase the presence of currently underrepresented racial and cultural groups in the U.S. professoriate by supporting doctoral candidates to complete the final academic requirement, the dissertation.

            Mitchem Fellowships provide one year of support for two students with advanced candidacy in their doctoral programs in other U.S. universities.  Fellows are to be in residence at Marquette University for the academic year (24 August - 23 May) during which they teach one (1) course in their area of specialization, interact with faculty and undergraduate students, and devote their primary energies to the completion of their dissertations.  During their residence, Mitchem Fellows will participate in a mentoring process, each Fellow collaborating with a senior faculty mentor in his or her discipline, who is appointed by the Dean.

            Marquette University Mitchem Fellows will receive financial support ($35,000 stipend, plus fringe benefits, research and travel monies) for 2009-2010 academic year. The University will further provide library privileges, office space, access to computer and clerical support equivalent to that enjoyed by regular faculty members in the department with which he or she is affiliated.

            Persons are eligible to apply who have not earned a doctoral degree at any time or in any field, are U. S. citizens, have completed all other requirements for the Ph.D., are well into the writing stage of their dissertation work, and who belong to a racial-cultural group historically underrepresented in the U.S. professoriate:  African American, Native American, and Hispanic American candidates are especially encouraged to apply.

            Applications for the 2009-2010 Fellowships are invited for the following academic areas: Education, English, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, Mathematics and Mathematics Education, Statistics, and Computer Science, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Social and Cultural Sciences, Theology, and Religious Studies.

            All applications for this position must be initiated through Marquette University’s electronic recruiting system found at http://www.marquette.edu/hr/careers.shtml (posting number 0600726). In addition to attaching a CV and letter of interest to the application please complete the application packet and send it via USPS to:

Dr. Jeanne Hossenlopp, Interim Dean
Klingler College of Arts and Sciences
Marquette University
P.O. Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881

The application packet should include:
1.      a completed application form
2.      graduate transcripts
3.      dissertation prospectus limited to 10 pages
4.      a description of teaching interests
5.      a list of dissertation advisor and committee members
6.      a progress toward degree form

Additionally, three confidential letters of recommendation, including one from the applicant’s dissertation advisor, should be sent directly to the Dean.  For application materials please visit http://www.marquette.edu/as/graduate_mitchem.shtml.

            An interdisciplinary faculty selection committee will review all applications and submit nominations to the Deans of the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences and College of Education, who appoint Mitchem Fellows. Finalists will be invited to campus for interviews. Fellowship recipients will be notified in April 2009. For further information, please write to “Mitchem Dissertation Fellowship Program” at the abovementioned address, call (414) 288-7472, or e-mail [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.