Application Materials 

• A Narrative (< 500 words) that addresses the three prompts below and demonstrates your strengths as an emerging sustainability leader:
  • Describe your educational and career goals and how this interdisciplinary, collaborative sustainability experience would be transformative (as opposed to incremental) for you. What do you hope to learn through this experience?
  • Describe how your unique experiences, perspectives, and/or skills could contribute to the collaborative learning that happens in the Graham Scholars Program.
  • Based on your studies and experiences, describe how you have fostered, or plan to foster, innovative and creative approaches to sustainability solutions. How does your background and unique perspective contribute more broadly to the field of sustainability?
• Curriculum vitae or resume (up to 2 pages)
• Transcripts of all undergraduate coursework. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable.

All applications are treated confidentially. Applications are accepted between March and April and decisions are made in May.

Application Review Criteria:
A review panel will be asked to consider the following review criteria when reviewing your application:

• Transformative experience potential: How well does the applicant demonstrate that their participation in the Graham Sustainability Scholars Program will be transformative in terms of their educational and/or professional goals? Or will it be an incremental experience? Consider evidence that engagement with multiple disciplines and external organizations will be a unique experience for the applicant and/or that the applicant will provide a unique perspective to the rest of the cohort.
• Commitment  to and perspectives on collaborating with an interdisciplinary team and cohort: How well does the applicant demonstrate the potential to proactively contribute to and collaborate on an interdisciplinary project team with an external partner, and the program cohort?
• Perspectives on and contribution to sustainability: How well does the applicant connect their unique background to broader sustainability goals? Does the applicant demonstrate a capacity for integrative approaches and creative problem-solving for sustainability?
• Sustainability leadership potential: Does the applicant have leadership experience or show potential for being a successful leader? Graham Sustainability Scholars will learn the following sustainability leadership competencies as part of the program: collaboration, communication, adaptability, shared visioning, self-awareness, anticipatory.