Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Dissertation Fellowships in Education

*Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Invites Applications for Dissertation
Fellowships in Education*
http://www.jkcf.org/scholarships/graduate-scholarships/jack-kent-cooke-dissertation-fellowship-award/

Deadline: *Feb. 3, 2012
Amount: *up to $25,000

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation works to help high-achieving, low-income students - from middle school to graduate school - reach their full potential through education.

The foundation created its dissertation fellowship program in 2010 to advance its understanding of the factors and contexts that help low-income students overcome personal adversity and challenging socioeconomic circumstances to excel academically. The foundation plans to use this knowledge to design programs and interventions that help more low-income students identified as high-achieving in their primary and secondary school years to sustain their achievement levels through college and beyond.

The fellowships are intended to support doctoral students for work done after the successful defense of their dissertation proposals. Although applicants must be candidates for a doctoral degree at a graduate school in the United States, they need not be U.S. citizens. Applications are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to education, sociology, economics, psychology, statistics, and psychometrics.

The fellowship is a one-time award of up to $25,000, which may be used for a period of not less than nine months and up to eighteen months. Four fellowships will be awarded.

http://www.jkcf.org/scholarships/graduate-scholarships/