2021-2022 Zankel Urban Fellowship Program Faculty Sponsor Application
The Zankel Fellowship is an $11,000 financial aid award for Teachers College students to work with disadvantaged inner city youth in New York City. Fellows are required to spend ten hours a week during the academic year on an approved faculty/staff project. Projects may include a research component, as long as the primary service requirements for the fellowship are met. Students’ eligibility for a Zankel Fellowship is determined by financial need and fit to faculty projects. The Zankel Urban Fellowship Program is managed by the Office of School and Community Partnerships (OSCP).  

For more information about the Zankel Fellowship visit http://www.tc.columbia.edu/oscp/main-content/student-support/arthur-zankel-urban-fellowship/. If the FAQ page on that website does not answer your questions, send your query to zankel_info@tc.edu.

HOW TO SPONSOR A ZANKEL FELLOWSHIP PROJECT
TC departments, centers, programs, and individual faculty members are encouraged to apply to sponsor a project that can be supported by one or more Zankel Fellows. Projects are approved for one year; faculty sponsors have the option to re-apply in subsequent years.

Interested faculty members should complete the online application below no later than Friday, February 19, 2021.

Faculty will be notified whether their applications have been approved by Monday,  March 1, 2021, and students will submit their applications to become Zankel Fellows between March 5, 2021-March 26, 2021. The sponsors of approved projects will select Zankel Fellows from the pool of all eligible TC applicants by April 30, 2021 (preferred deadline) with ongoing selection through July.  

RESPONSIBILITIES OF FACULTY/STAFF SPONSORS
Fellows are selected by faculty sponsors from among the students who apply each year. Sponsors place their Zankel Fellows in a New York City school, agency or community organization, where the students are engaged in at least five hours a week of direct service to disadvantaged inner city youth. Fellows are expected to provide up to five additional hours a week in service, planning and/or other activities related to the project.  Because the Zankel Urban Fellowship is primarily a service award, preference is given to projects that entail more than the minimum number of hours of direct service to young people.

The sponsor serves as a liaison with the schools or agencies where students provide service and with the OSCP. The sponsor mentors her/his fellow(s), provides updates and reports as requested by the OSCP, and troubleshoots placement issues.

It is a requirement of the fellowship that students and faculty working directly with children complete any fingerprinting and/or background checks that are mandated by the Department of Education and/or Department of Health policy. The OSCP is able to assist students and faculty members with the fingerprinting process.

Furthermore, sponsors are responsible for securing Institutional Review Board approval for any human subjects research undertaken in association with the Zankel Fellowship.  

PROJECT SELECTION
Proposals are reviewed by a committee comprised of representatives from the Dean’s Office, TC faculty, the Office of School and Community Partnerships, and the Office of Development. The Zankel Fellowship Committee also determines the number of fellows to be allocated to each project. It is typically one or two, but a special request may be made for more. Every effort is made to approve projects from as many TC departments as possible.

Preference will be given to projects that engage Zankel Fellows in direct service (such as tutoring, instruction, mentoring, etc.) to New York City youth for more than the minimum requirement of five hours per week. While faculty sponsors may ask fellows to devote time to other tasks (such as curriculum and professional development, data collection, etc.), these tasks are not considered direct service to youth. Projects focused on research, professional development of teachers, or other activities that do not engage the fellows in direct service to New York City youth are not a good fit to the mission of the program.

Full-time faculty are eligible to apply provided they do not plan to take sabbatical leave during the academic year for which they are submitting an application. Though adjunct faculty and lecturers may also apply, preference will be given to applications submitted by tenured or tenure-track faculty.
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Email *
Are you currently sponsoring a 2020-2021 Zankel Fellowship project? *
Proposed or Current Project Title *
Your Name *
Your Department and Program *
If you are applying to continue your current project, what have you learned from this project? Is there anything you plan to change for the upcoming year? *
If this is a new project, please answer: "N/A."
Number of Fellows Requested *
Minimum Number of Fellows Needed for Project *
If this is a current project, and the number of fellows requested is changing, please briefly explain why. *
If this is a new project, please answer: "N/A."
If this is a current project, do you intend to select the same fellows as you are currently working with? *
If you will only consider fellowship applicants from a specific TC program, please specify the program. If you are OK with students from any program, please write "Any." *
Proposed Project Site(s) *
Briefly describe the project and the fellows' proposed responsibilities (answer should not exceed 750 words). *
If this is a current project, you can enter the same answer as last year.
What kind of skills will your Zankel Fellow(s) need to have to complete project work? *
If this is a current project, you can enter the same answer as last year.
How many hours per week will your fellow(s) spend working directly with inner city youth? (Note that a minimum of 5 hours per week is required and fellows should not exceed 10 hours per week.) *
In addition to the time spent working directly with youth, how much time (if any) will the fellow(s) spend planning and preparing for the project? (Note that fellows should not exceed a total of 10 hours per week, 5 hours of which must be spent working directly with youth.) *
Please describe the fellow's proposed weekly schedule. *
If this is not yet known, please answer: "unknown."
Is the internship part of a larger and ongoing project? If so, how is it funded and for how long?  Are there other graduate students involved? *
If this is a current project, you can enter the same answer as last year.
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