Call for Community Service-Learning /
Community-Based Research Project Ideas

Attention community organizations large and small! Through the Morgridge Center for Public Service’s Wisconsin Idea Undergraduate Fellowship (WIF) program, opportunities exist for you to collaborate with an undergraduate fellow on a service-learning or community-based research project that meets a community-identified need at the same time it contributes to the student’s education!

The Fellowship provides a stipend to students and also transfers funds to the community organization partner and the advising faculty/instructional staff member’s department to help defray costs associated with the implementation of the project ($500 to each for summer-only projects and $1,000 to each for all other projects).

This fall, the Morgridge Center will be hosting three information sessions to assist students with the development of project proposals. An important resource given to students at these InfoSessions is a listing of project ideas developed by community organizations like yours. We will make them available to interested students beginning in late October.

If you are interested, please use the attached form to develop your project idea(s). Be as descriptive as possible, and bear in mind the more innovative and exciting the project is, the more likely students are likely to choose it! Feel free to use additional pages to describe your idea(s). If submitting more than one idea, please describe each separately.

Please be aware that there are no guarantees that a student will select your proposed project idea(s); but the information that you provide is an excellent way to help students identify potential projects. Students will contact you directly, if they are interested in learning more about your proposed project idea(s).

PLEASE NOTE:

• The project ideas you submit will be for the 2010-2011academic year. Projects may occur during any of the following time periods:

  • Summer 2010
  • Fall Semester 2010
  • Summer & Fall Semester 2010
  • Spring Semester 2011
  • Fall Semester 2010 & Spring Semester 2011.
    
    

• In addition to the stipend, students receive 3 academic credits for the project

• Projects selected for implementation focus on student learning as well as meeting a community need.

• Projects may be undertaken by an individual student or group of students

• Project applications must include letters of support from the community organization as well as the faculty/instructional staff sponsor.

• Fellowships will be awarded to projects developed by the student(s) in collaboration with a community organization partner and an advising faculty/instructional staff member.

If your proposed idea is selected as a Wisconsin Idea Undergraduate Fellowship project, you must be willing to work in partnership with the student and his/her faculty/instructional staff advisor throughout the planning and implementation phases of the project. On-going, clear communication among all partners is crucial to successful projects.

Click here for a WIF Community Partner Project Proposal form.

A complete listing of current and past WIF projects is available at the Wisconsin Idea Undergraduate Fellowships homepage at http://morgridge.wisc.edu/students/wif.html.

Please contact Randy Wallar (jrwallar@wisc.edu) or Matt Krueger (mjkruege@wisc.edu) with any questions you might have.