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Southern Growth Seeks Student Applicants
for Southern Research Fellows Program
Southern Growth Policies
Board seeks student applicants for its Southern Research Fellows
Program. The Southern Research Fellows Program promotes student research
relating to economic development and quality of life in 13 Southern
states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
and West Virginia.
Eligible applicants
include current undergraduate and graduate students aged 18 - 25 at
colleges and universities in the 13 Southern Growth member states.
Suggested majors/fields of study include, but are not limited to: public
policy, journalism, political science, education, sociology, business,
city & regional planning, public administration and social work.
The focus of the 2008
Southern Research Fellows Program is the engagement, development and
leadership of youth aged 14 to 24. Fellows will prepare an original
report on an approved topic that will be incorporated into Southern
Growth's 2008 Report on the Future of the South and distributed at
Southern Growth's annual conference. Fellows will also receive a cash
award of $1,000.
Relevant report topics
for 2008 include youth development, civic engagement and strategies for
building policies and partnerships that foster youth leadership skills,
workforce preparedness, volunteerism, entrepreneurship and the traits to
become active, responsible citizens. The application deadline is January
11, 2008, with selections announced by February 1, 2008. The fellows’
final report to Southern Growth Policies Board will be due March 31,
2008.
To learn more about the
Southern Research Fellows Program, and to download application forms,
please visit
www.southern.org/research/fellowship.shtml.
To learn more about
Southern Growth, visit
http://www.southern.org.
