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Support for Scholarship

Summer Scholars supports faculty-student collaborations in all disciplines. Each team is typically comprised of one faculty member and one or two students. Compensation for faculty and students allows teams to focus on their scholarship during 10 weeks during the summer. Teams are also provided with training, support, and resources to facilitate the peer-reviewed dissemination of their scholarly work.

Community of Scholars

Summer Scholars establishes a supportive community of faculty and student scholars who learn from and support one another; this community of scholars is a critical part of the program. Students and faculty attend weekly workshops designed to support scholarship, professional, and personal development.

Student-faculty teams that include undergraduate students and ranked faculty members are eligible.

• Students and faculty must complete an application together. Summer Scholars teams are typically one faculty member and one or two students.
• All ranked faculty are eligible to apply. Adjunct faculty are not eligible for the program.
• Students must be enrolled in a bachelor's degree program and have at least one semester left at ��ż���’s after completing the program to be eligible.

Summer Scholars is an intensive 10-week immersive experience for both faculty and students and requires an investment in scholarship, mentoring, and group dialogue to create a strong cohort and culture of scholarship. Faculty must be available to fully engage in the scholarly project, to effectively mentor the student collaborator(s), and to actively participate in Summer Scholars workshops and activities. Any summer travel plans must be detailed in the application timeline. Note that although Summer Scholars is a 10-week intensive summer program, your commitment is for the entire academic year, as students and mentors are expected to prepare for and present their work at a national conference during the academic year.

Students also need to demonstrate a commitment to the program by describing how they will manage their other obligations and meet the expectations of this program. Any summer travel plans must be detailed in the application timeline. Students can apply to work 20 hours/week and must commit to submitting an abstract to the National Conference on Undergraduate Research or discipline-specific conference or its equivalent.

The Summer Scholars program is committed to promoting collaborative scholarship across disciplines while supporting both faculty and students. Faculty who fully engage in the Summer Scholars program will be paid a summer stipend equivalent to one course overload. Students will be paid to work 20 hours per week.

The dissemination requirements (see above) require students and faculty to continue working on their scholarship during the academic year. While we strive to provide funding for students, we cannot guarantee that students will be paid in the fall (though we guarantee funding for travel to NCUR if abstracts are accepted). Faculty are paid for their work in the summer only.

This year, we are able to fund two additional Summer Scholars teams for projects that meet the following criteria:

Your application must address one of the priorities of the GHR Foundation's investment in ��ż���'s. 

These core practice elements are

• Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (ICP)—when multiple health workers from different backgrounds work together with patients, families, carers, and communities to deliver the highest quality of care (WHO, 2010)
• Cultural Fluency—ability to navigate the many dimensions of culture needed to build shared meaning and understanding with people from other cultures. It is comprised of several skills such as working with ambiguity, flexibility, respect, empathy and adaptability (Inoue, 2007)
• Ecological Approach—grounded in the understanding that the conditions that result in individual health or illness arise out of the interaction between an individual’s traits and their physical and sociocultural environment and are influenced on multiple levels (e.g. intrapersonal, interpersonal, organizational, community and policy (Sallis & Owen, 2015).

Each of the above is conceptualized and addressed within the contexts of global health, primary care, and senior living. If you are eligible, your team will be asked to answer a few additional questions

All students are expected to submit their work for presentation at a peer-reviewed venue (e.g., undergraduate or discipline-specific conference, gallery exhibit, performance) during academic year. Additionally, teams will be encouraged and supported in their efforts to publish their work in a peer-reviewed journal or the discipline equivalent. Students also are required to present their scholarship at either the ��ż��� Fall Research Symposium or the Sr. Seraphim Gibbons Undergraduate Symposium.

Teams conducting research with human participants need approval from the Institutional Review Board prior to beginning their scholarship. Projects that require IRB approval will be contingently accepted for Summer Scholars support until they have been approved.

Participants evaluate the Summer Scholars program and its components.