The Futures Initiative is seeking applications from Graduate Center doctoral students in any field for 2021-2022 fellowships. This is a one-year position, and may possibly be renewed for one additional year (two additional years for students who have not received five-year GC fellowships). We are seeking at least one new fellow for 2021-2022, for the role of Facilitator, CUNY Peer Leadership Program. Other roles may become available at a later date.

Antiracist pedagogy and institutional change have been central to this program since its founding in 2014, and we aim to build a team that is diverse in every way. Doctoral students who have backgrounds underrepresented in the academy are especially encouraged to apply.  

Graduate Fellows are at the heart of the Futures Initiative, and the work we do is designed to support our mission and the professional goals of every Fellow. Our past fellows have gone on to do meaningful, inspiring work, both in the academy and beyond. In the same way that we advocate peer-to-peer communities online, peer mentorship, and student-centered learning in the classroom, so are we organized around the ideal of peer administration and peer leadership as the basis of agency and activism in the development of future leaders of a more equitable society and system of higher education and a more democratic society.

Futures Initiative Fellowships offer a total compensation of approximately $28,128. The FI Fellowship has two components: a graduate assistant appointment and a financial aid fellowship. The graduate assistant appointment carries eligibility to purchase low-cost NYSHIP health insurance and offers in-state tuition remission for Fellows who are within their first 10 registered semesters of study. Fellows are required to work 450 hours for the academic year (225 hours per semester). This translates into 15 hours of work per week during each 15-week semester. Determinations of re-appointments are made on an annual basis depending on individual eligibility, GC needs, and available funding.

Please read the details, then apply using this form by April 12, 2021. Questions should be sent to Katina Rogers, krogers@gc.cuny.edu.

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