 Summer Justice Scholars Grant Program
The Summer Justice Scholars Grant Program is for students who wish to pursue research during the summer surrounding the issues of justice and social change. - Students whose proposals are successful will receive to support their summer research.
- Grant recipients will submit a completed research paper and/or project by the end of the summer and will present their research to the College Community at some point during the fall semester.
- The program is open to members of the classes of '10, '11 and '12 at Loyola College in Maryland.
- Preference will be given to those students who have taken a service-learning course.
The grants are intended to support students who wish to continue their interest and research during the summer, with the understanding that the research would be in addition to summer employment or other commitments. It is intended to be a secondary undertaking, not an onerous one.
- The idea or question must have arisen during a course taken at Loyola (especially service-learning courses). The course might have been taken during any year or any semester, not simply this current semester.
- The research must be original (not a revision of work completed for courses already taken).
- Avoid proposals about ‘why I liked the service in my course’ or recaps of ‘what I learned during my service in a service-learning course.’
- The research project may take many forms, e.g., a paper, visual art presentation, etc.
- Consider questions about justice at systemic levels:
- How might one person (or society) successfully transform existing structures so that the result is a (more) just society or (more) just world?
- Why do specific forms of injustice exist and how might they be transformed?
- Some examples are:
- How do income and food retailing affect the nutrition of individuals experiencing poverty? What can be done to change it?
- How can the rebuilding of New Orleans provide equitable environmental protections to all city residents?
- What is unjust about current heath care system in the United States? How might it be improved to become more just?
- Many after school programs in Baltimore City provide assistance with remedial skills. What does this say about the educational system in the city and what could be done to make these kinds of programs unnecessary?
- Contact Megan Linz Dickinson by Wednesday, March 18, 2009 to express your interest in the Summer Scholars Grant Program.
- Submit your research proposal and cover page no later than 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Please use the Summer Scholars Grant Program Proposal Form (Word doc) as a guide for your proposal.
- Decisions will be made and recipients notified by Monday, March 30, 2009.
| 
