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 respectful civil dialogue across a wide range of political, social, and cultural differences within the Penn experience.
Cultivating Citizenship
Support students as they integrate their public roles as citizens into their 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 their local, national, and global communities.
From Our Executive Director
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 year and junior year proseminar designed to build skills and community among the Fellows.
Courses
Take three Paideia designated courses focusing on relevant aspects of dialogue across difference, public service, and personal and social wellness.
Capstone Project
Complete a senior capstone project that integrates a Fellow’s major with civic dialogue, service, and/or wellness.
Fall retreat for SNF Paideia Fellows
Exploring along the edges of Philadelphia reveals the essence of the city
The SNF Paideia Program teamed up with Penn alumnus and artist JJ Tiziou for ‘Walk Around Philadelphia,’ a fall retreat for student fellows.
Read MoreNominate and student for a fellowship.
Faculty and staff may nominate a student for an SNF Paideia Fellowship in the spring semester of their first year.