你有兴趣参加一个可以让你成长并学习成为领导者的项目吗?
妇女进步倡议通过教育和领导力项目为妇女的成功提供了独特的地位, research and scholarship opportunities, and career connections and experiences.
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领导力教育和发展(LEAD)项目是一个独特的领导力发展项目, resilience coaching, and career readiness program for undergraduate women.
旨在回应女学生在本科经历的每个阶段的独特机遇和挑战, LEAD provides students with the tools, 培训, 和社区成功导航的旅程，并通过大学生活和事业.
What are the benefits of participating in LEAD?
- 受到鼓舞去领导，并为个人和集体的成就感到自豪.
- 通过体验式领导力培训和解决问题的机会，感觉自己被赋予了权力.
- 包括工作见习、实习和社区服务在内的经验可以充实你的简历.
- 探索妇女进步倡议提供的奖学金机会.
- Getting connected to a supportive network.
- Lessons in life and career preparation including salary negotiation, 个人财务状况, and interview skills.
- Opportunities to attend outings and events, forums, and conferences.
- 专业, 在立博体育官网的四年里，每月两次的实践生活技能和领导力发展课程.
- Cultivate lifelong bonds with fellow women who empower each other.
Who can apply for the LEAD program?
LEAD is for female undergraduate students at University of Hartford. Its cohort program is limited to 25-30 students per graduation class.
每年春季，我们都会向入学的一年级学生发出申请LEAD的通知.
2024-2025学年的申请截止日期为2024年6月3日.
多萝西古德温奖学金致力于支持选定的大二学生, 初级, 以及从事创新性研究或创造性项目的高年级女学生和她们的导师. Scholarship awards are between $1,000 – 3,000.
This scholarship was created to honor Dorothy Goodwin, 一个教育家, 政治家, 世界旅行, 有远见的, 家庭成员, 是谁激励妇女和女孩超越局限，充分发挥她们的潜力. 她认识到，实现一个人的潜力需要具有挑战性的机会，并以此为榜样, 提交导师, and financial support. In honor of her influence and philanthropic spirit, 妇女进步倡议很荣幸地宣布这个年度奖学金项目.
*Gender diverse students may apply.
Proposal Deadline: Sunday, October 22, 2023
谁有资格?
多萝西古德温学者将是创造性的自我启动者，符合以下标准:
- Women* students who are currently full-time undergraduate sophomores, 初中, 或立博体育官网任何学校或学院学习任何学科的大四学生都有资格申请.
- Be in good academic standing with a 3.0 ≥ overall GPA during the designated project period.
- 与立博体育官网教师导师(包括兼职教师)合作开展并能够实施一项创新的学术研究或创造性项目
- 申请人必须在整个学年参加其他活动.
- 可能项目的例子:一个学生音乐家可能会探索一个鲜为人知的作曲家的作品, 精心制作一场演出，让公众更多地了解作曲家的生活和作品. A student scientist might pair with a faculty mentor in carrying out a particular set of experiments as an independent project or as one aspect of a greater research agenda; the results compiled into a poster session for a professional conference or a paper co-authored and submitted to an academic journal. A student sociologist might select a discrete social issue, designing an intervention that might be implemented, 测量, 和评估.
Selected student applicants will receive a total award package of $1,000 - $3,000, 分两期支付(75%的奖励将在奖学金期开始时支付，25%的奖励将在完成项目要求时支付). 这包括每月提交一次妇女进步社的社交媒体更新和电子通讯, thank you letters to donors who make this program possible, and completed final report.
该奖项的具体用途将与个别获奖者进行审查, and may include scholarship dollars, 项目材料, conference registration, 旅行, 等. 除了, 教师导师还将获得500美元的专业发展奖励，以表彰他们的服务和项目监督.
Application Process:
- 申请人的名字, address, email (University and personal), phone (cell and home), expected graduation date, 大学, 部门, 和主要
- Resume and transcript (unofficial copies will be accepted)
- Narrative: In up to three double-spaced pages, 请描述你所提议的研究或创意项目的以下要素:
- Scholarship Period: Spring 2024 or Spring/Summer 2024
- 项目总结:提供一个500字以内的整体项目总结. Include a brief project description, the need for this research/project, process/plan for your research/project development, 这个研究/项目将如何影响你未来的职业和个人抱负, proposed used of scholarship funds, and state whether this project has additional funding.
- Project Plan: What are the goals of your project? What role will you play in accomplishing these goals?
- 项目时间表:项目活动发生的时间和顺序?
- 个人目标:你期望从研究项目中学到什么, and from your faculty mentor? How does this connect with your future plans? How will receiving this scholarship make a difference in your life?
- 财务计划: Awards of $1,000 - $3,000 are available to Dorothy Goodwin Scholars. 你打算如何使用这个奖项，无论是个人的还是与项目有关的? Does your project already have additional funding? Include a table that summarizes your financial plan.
教师 mentors will submit the following:
- 完成 Dorothy Goodwin 教师 Mentor Form and attach it to a one-page abbreviated CV or bio
方案评审
代表妇女进步倡议理事会的委员会将对提案进行评判. Projects will be evaluated on the following criteria:
- Quality of project
- Originality of research or creative project
- Feasibility of research or creative project
- 学生申请人为导师伙伴关系做出贡献并从中受益的能力
- 教师导师为学员伙伴关系做出贡献并从中受益的能力
- Student’s availability to participate in academic-year programming
Additional Requirements
获奖者将参加定期的讲习班，并与提高妇女地位倡议的工作人员和志愿者一起参加咨询会议，以增加她们的经验.
所有多萝西古德温学者将在3月28日举行的妇女进步倡议年度研讨会上公开展示他们的项目, 2023. 学生必须包括——这个项目是在妇女进步倡议的支持下完成的——ppt, 施舍, or other public presentations.
Students are required to submit an initial and final thank you letter, monthly project updates, and a final report.
将完成的提案通过电子邮件提交给妇女进步倡议主任迪娜·莫里斯 womenadv@tilou.net or glmorris@tilou.net. For proposal assistance, call 860.768.5961 or email Amy Jaffe Barzach at barzach@tilou.net.
提交 proposal to womenadv@tilou.net by Sunday, October 22, 2023.
*Gender diverse students may apply.
Created by his widow, Margaret Donovan, the 罗伯特E. Donovan Scholarship Fund honors and celebrates the life of 罗伯特E. Donovan who believed in the transformative power of education. 这些奖学金每年颁发给一名或多名攻读工程学的女学生，她们有望完成学业, but who need financial assistance in order to continue.