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ASHE Lumina Dissertation Fellowship
With support from Lumina Foundation for Education, the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) announces the ASHE/Lumina Foundation Fellowship Program. The key objective of this initiative is to promote innovative scholarship by creating an intergenerational community of scholars who will examine social, institutional, and policy barriers to opportunity and student success. Our goal is the development of new research questions, methodologies, and frameworks for the study of access and success that go beyond what is already known about critical topics related to, for example, college choice, financial aid, and student retention. The grant will fund eight to ten dissertation fellowships a year for a three-year period. The 2006-2009 fellowship program builds on the success of the original fellowship program, which began in 2003. The 2008-2009 fellows are the final cohort for the grant program. We are at the end of the 2006-2009 grant from Lumina Foundation and will not be offering the fellowship in 2009-2010.
Lumina Foundation for Education, an Indianapolis-based, private, independent foundation, strives to help people achieve their potential by expanding access and success in education beyond high school. Through grants for research, innovation, communication and evaluation, as well as policy education and leadership development, Lumina Foundations addresses issues that affect access and educational attainment among all students, particularly underserved student groups, including adult learners. The Foundation bases its mission on the belief that postsecondary education remains one of the most beneficial investments that individuals can make in themselves and that society can make in its people. For more details on the Foundation, visit its Web site at www.luminafoundation.org.
Lumina Foundation has provided ASHE with funding for fellowships in the amount of $14,000 to support dissertation research on the broad topics of financial aid, student retention and success, and adult learners and learning. The fellowships will support up to one year of activity that will be conducted through the students’ home universities and can be used to support costs of supplying data, dissemination of project results, travel, tuition, and salary for the fellows. A critical component of the fellowship program is professional development and mentoring of fellows. To that end, fellows are assigned an established scholar as a mentor in the program, participate in an online community of scholars, and come together twice during the fellowship year – during an ASHE pre-conference session in November and in a summer colloquium at the end of the fellowship year – to participate in an intergenerational group dedicated to promoting innovative scholarship on student access and success.
Kristen
Renn, PhD
AssociateProfessor
Coordinator, ASHE/Lumina Fellows Program
Michigan State University
428 Erickson Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824-1034
517-353-5979
E-mail: ASHE/Lumina Fellowship
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