Fellowships
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Fellowship Information
An interconnected education.
The SNF Paideia Fellowship Program is tailored to help students connect their general education and major requirements to public engagement and community building through meaningful dialogue across difference.
Facilitating Dialogue
Foster the practice of robust and dialogue across a wide range of political, social, and cultural differences within the Penn experience.
Cultivating Citizenship
Integrate the public roles of citizens with one’s academic, personal, and professional lives in healthy, sustainable, and fulfilling ways.
Creating Opportunities
Provide and highlight curricular and co-curricular opportunities for students to acquire the tools to effectively contribute to local, national, and global communities.
From Our Executive Director
SNF Paideia can help all of us navigate these times of polarization and disagreement, reflect on how to best engage with others, and build skills for interacting with people who are different than ourselves.
Structure of the Program
Seminars for Fellows
Participate in a sophomore, junior, and senior year proseminar designed to build skills and community among the Fellows.
Courses
Take two SNF Paideia designated courses designed to integrate students’ personal, professional, and civic development through the lens of dialogue across difference.
Capstone Project
Complete a senior capstone project that integrates a Fellow’s major with civic dialogue, service, and/or wellness.
Funding
Apply for fellows-only internship funding or financial support for academic or community engagement that relates to the mission of SNF Paideia.
Read about the inaugural cohort of SNF Paideia Fellows
A time to celebrate for inaugural SNF Paideia Fellows
The first cohort of fellows graduates, taking with them the pillars of the SNF Paideia Program—dialogue, citizenship, service, and wellness—on their next life adventures.
Read MoreNominate a first-year student for a fellowship.
Faculty and staff may nominate a student for an SNF Paideia Fellowship. Once we receive the nomination, we will send an email to the student inviting them to apply. Applications are due February 10, 2025. Please submit your nomination early to allow ample time for the nominee to submit an application.