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I write to ask your help in identifying promising undergraduates (sophomores, juniors, or seniors) with interests in issues of inequality and social policy for our Galbraith Scholars Summer Program, June 11-15, 2006. The program is designed to cultivate a diverse new generation of scholars and leaders who aspire to apply themselves to some of our most challenging social problems, and we particularly encourage students of color and students of limited economic means to apply. The 14-16 applicants selected as Galbraith Scholars will receive full funding (travel, accommodation, and activity expenses) to attend a special five-day program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government led by Harvard faculty, doctoral fellows, and policy practitioners. During their time at Harvard, Galbraith Scholars explore substantive issues of inequality and social policy through a variety of graduate-style seminars, workshops, panel discussions, off-site field trips, and collaborative activities. A central aim of the program is to introduce participants to graduate school, Ph.D. research, and career opportunities in the social sciences and social policy domain. In recent years, Galbraith Scholars have enjoyed working sessions with such Harvard faculty members as Mary Jo Bane, Mary Brinton, Prudence Carter, David Ellwood, Ron Ferguson, Roland Fryer, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Marshall Ganz, Claudia Goldin, Lani Guinier, Jennifer Hochschild, Christopher Jencks, Theda Skocpol, Kim Williams, William Julius Wilson, and John Kenneth Galbraith himself. We expect the program will be best suited to students from the social sciences with interests in such domains as labor markets, urban poverty and residential segregation, family structures and parental roles, immigration, race and ethnicity, educational access and quality, political participation and inequalities, and comparative welfare state politics and institutions. Please feel free to share this announcement with students who might particularly benefit from the program. Prospective applicants will find further information and application materials on our website. Galbraith Scholars 2006 brochure/application materials: Galbraith Scholars 2006 flyer (1 page, PDF format): APPLICATION DEADLINE: With best regards, Jeffrey B. Liebman |
