The InterArts Excellence and Diversity Fellowships are targeted to develop the excellence and increase the diversity of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University. The school aims to attract students of outstanding quality, to increase ethnic, racial and socioeconomic diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. These awards will be made to individuals who, in the judgment of the faculty have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college and university level, show promise of future achievement as a scholar and teacher, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. All citizens or nationals of the United States, regardless of national origin, religion, gender, age disability or sexual orientation will be eligible to apply.
Applicants for the InterArts Excellence and Diversity Fellowship should submit an essay that address the following points, which will be considered positive factors for choosing successful candidates:
- Evidence of superior academic achievement
- Degree of promise of continuing achievement as a scholar and teacher
- First-generation college student and income eligible
- Membership in one or more of the groups who are underrepresented in the American professoriate
- Commitment to serving the educational needs of the Appalachian region.
- Capacity to respond in pedagogically productive ways to the learning needs of students from diverse backgrounds
- Sustained personal engagement with communities that are underrepresented in the academy and an ability to bring this asset to learning, teaching, and scholarship at the college and university level
- Likelihood of using diversity of human experience as an educational resource in teaching and scholarship
The amount of the stipend is $20,109, and includes full tuition fee waiver. The student receiving the InterArts Diversity Stipend will be required to engage in outreach activities to minority communities and to develop strategies to respond in pedagogically productive ways to the learning needs of students from diverse backgrounds.
Application deadline: Jan. 31, 2009
The School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University offers a unique program of study in the arts. The Ph.D. program educates scholars who are grounded in a single discipline (aesthetics and theory, art, film, music and theater) and are able to view that area through the lens of the other arts. Interdisciplinary Arts is an exploration of interrelationships, interdependencies and interactions among the arts. Students and faculty cross disciplines to analyze the arts in such contexts as culture, history, theory, politics, religion, gender, ethnicity and economics. The School of Interdisciplinary Arts seeks to educate scholars and teachers for the twenty-first century, and is therefore committed to developing a professoriate that is diverse as America itself.