Eligibility
	Application procedures

.The Lilly Graduate Fellows Program supports, during the course of their graduate education, exceptionally well qualified Protestant and Catholic young men and women who have bachelor degrees from LFP Network Schools and who are interested in becoming teacher-scholars at church-related colleges and universities in the United States. 

The Three Year Program

Each year, the Lilly Graduate Fellows Program selects a cohort of 15 fellows who are entering Ph.D. or equivalent graduate programs in humanities and arts at schools of their choosing. The 2008-2011 Lilly Graduate Fellows will enter graduate school in the fall, 2008. Over a three year period, these fellows, along with two senior mentors, will communicate and collaborate with each other in areas of research, teaching, and professional development. The 2008-2011 program will reach completion in the fall, 2011, with the introduction of the Graduate Fellows to representatives of the Lilly Fellows Program National Network at the Network’s annual national conference.  More specifically, Lilly Graduate Fellows will participate in the following programmatic objectives 

• Lilly Graduate Fellows attend 4 conferences over the course of three years. These conferences allow Fellows to collaborate with each other and with senior scholars and luminaries who integrate research, teaching, vocation, and an interest in Protestant and Catholic higher education. 

• Lilly Graduate Fellows will develop a relationship with two mentors who are senior scholars at a Lilly Fellows Program Network School. 

• Lilly Graduate Fellows and mentors participate in group readings and online discussions over the course of the three year program. 

• Lilly Graduate Fellows will receive 3 annual $3,000 stipends for use at the Fellows’ discretion.

Nomination 

All nominees for the Lilly Graduate Fellows Program must be nominated by their LFP National Network Undergraduate institutions. Each Network Institution can nominate up to three nominees. To inquire about nomination, please contact the LFP Network Representative at your Undergraduate Institution.  To find the names and contact information for your campus representatives, click here.

LFP National Network Campus Representatives must submit up to three nominees for the 2008-2011 Program no later than December 10, 2007.

Finalists will be invited to an interview weekend on April 11-13, 2008; final selection of the Lilly Graduate Fellows is made by a selection committee and Lilly Fellows Program staff. Fifteen graduate fellowships will be awarded.

For Eligibility Requirements, click here
For Application Procedures, click here
To Download a PDF Flyer, click here
To Download a PDF Announcement Sheet, click here

 For more information, contact us via e-mail (lillyfellows.program@valpo.edu) or call 219-464-5317.