The Office of Community Engaged Learning is accepting nominations for the Newman Civic Fellowship.

The Newman Civic Fellowship recognizes community-committed students who engage in collaborative action with others from campus or from surrounding communities in order to create long-term social change, take action in addressing issues of inequality and political polarization, and demonstrate the motivation and potential for effective long-term civic engagement.

Nominees must be enrolled in higher education for the duration of the 2018–2019 academic year.

To nominate a student, please submit one to two paragraphs with information about the nominee’s approaches to addressing the root causes of social issues. These may include involvement in public policy reform, community organizing, community-based research, social entrepreneurism, or other efforts to build the capacity of community-based organizations. Additionally, please include why you believe this person has the motivation and potential to develop innovative and collaborative approaches to addressing public problems and to contribute to a network of similarly committed students.

A committee will review nominations to select one student from Drake to be nominated for the Fellowship. That student will need to complete additional paperwork.

Please submit nominations to Amanda Martin, program coordinator in community engaged learning, at amanda.martin@drake.edu no later than Nov. 28.

—Amanda Martin, Community Engaged Learning