Purpose: The UCEA GSF aims to provide research, mentoring and career development opportunities for an outstanding graduate student who is enrolled in an UCEA member educational leadership program and intends to enter the professoriate. The UCEA Program Center fellow will receive a stipend of $5,000.
Where: The fellow will be eligible to be in residence for six to eight weeks during the summer at one of the eight current UCEA programs centers**.
UCEA Program Centers:
- UCEA Joint Program Center for the Study of the Superintendency and District Governance
- UCEA Center for Educational Leadership and Social Justice
- UCEA Center for the Study of Leadership in Urban Schools
- UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE)
- UCEA Center for the Study of Leadership & Ethics
- UCEA Center for the Study of Academic Leadership
- UCEA Center for the Study of School Site Leadership
- The National Center for the Evaluation of Educational Leadership Preparation and Practice
For more information on the centers and their locations go to: http://www.ucea.org/program-centers/
** Contingent upon acceptance from individual centers to host a student.
Time Frame: The UCEA GSF is a six to eight week program that will commence in June of 2012 and continue through the end of July 2012. This timeframe can be re-arranged for another time during calendar year 2012 if mutually agreed upon between the Program Center and fellow.
Due: February 20, 2012
Student Application Process: Application materials from each student must include four statements of no more than 500 words each addressing the following:
- Describe your academic and personal experiences that you consider relevant to UCEA GSF fellowship
- Describe your short-range and long-range career goals
- Detail your research experience
- How does a summer fellowship at a UCEA program center align with your pursuit of the professoriate?
Send your application to:
Julian Vasquez Heilig, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Program Centers, University Council for Educational Administration
Associate Professor of Educational Policy and Planning
Department of Education Administration
The University of Texas at Austin
jvh@austin.utexas.edu
Note: Applications must arrive by February 20, 2012. The Program Centers Advisory Board (PCAB) will review the applications and students will be notified in early April 2012.