Student Opportunities:
-
John Courtney Murray Circle
- Funding
for Exploring Vocations in Ministry
The
Fund for Theological Education, a national program that
collaborates with the College's Lilly Vocation Initiative,
has support funds available for students interested
in pursuing ministry in any of the Christian churches.
The Undergraduate Fellows Program offers a summer
conference on ministry, and which includes a $1,500
stipend to apply towards educational costs or further
exploration of ministry. It is open to current sophomores
and Juniors with a minimum GPA of 3.0. More information
is available at www.thefund.org
or www.exploreministry.org.
Deadline for applications is March 1.
Faculty Opportunities:
Baylor
University Institute for Faith and Learning: Visiting
Fellows Program
The
Institute for Faith and Learning sponsors a Visiting Fellows
Program that brings outstanding scholars to Baylor University
for one-year appointments. During their residency at Baylor,
visiting fellows pursue research in their academic disciplines
informed by Christian intellectual traditions. Senior
and Junior fellowships are available. Application deadline
is January 15 each year.
Catholic Studies Reading Group
Holy Cross faculty and staff meet three times a semester
for dinner followed by discussion of a novel, their own
research, research by other scholars that generally pertains
to Catholic Studies. All Holy Cross faculty and staff
are notified by email of upcoming meetings.
Collegium
Collegium sponsors an annual summer colloquies on faith and intellectual
life for faculty from its sixty member schools, and for graduate students
who apply for fellowships. Collegium is particularly designed to welcome new
faculty and faculty who are not Catholic into reflection about their own
vocation as intellectuals of various faith commitments at Catholic institutions.
The colloquies have gained a wide reputation for being both intellectually
stimulating and spiritually refreshing. Holy Cross faculty have attended
for ten years. Collegium’s website contains a wealth of further information
about faith and intellectual life issues nationwide. Contact Tom Landy for
more information.
The Erasmus Institute
The Erasmus Institute sponsors an annual summer seminar
for faculty, to offer scholars a chance to enrich their
research by relating it to the intellectual traditions
associated with Catholicism in particular, as well as
to those of other Christian traditions and the Abrahamic
religions more generally. A distinguished scholar leads
the seminar, helping its members over the course of two
weeks to explore ways in which these traditions can enhance
their individual projects. The Institute will cover expenses
of food, lodging, and transportation for all participants.
Holy Cross hosted the Erasmus summer seminars for faculty
and graduate students in 2003.
The
Institute also sponsors a number of other conferences
on disciplinary and interdisciplinary topics, such as
the recent "Rethinking the State: Catholic Thought and
Contemporary Political Theory."
Lilly
Vocation Initiative at Holy Cross
This
initiative includes funds for for faculty for course development
and research initiatives. This portion of the grant is
administered through the Dean's office.
Lilly
Fellows Program
The Lilly Fellows Program Network of Colleges and Universities
includes a wide range of church-related institutions participating
in a national conversation about the nature of the Christian
academic vocation and the future of church-related higher
education. A variety of annual national, regional, and
specialized conferences benefit faculty and students from
its member institutions. Dean Stephen Ainlay is a member
of the LFP’s National Network Board.
Seminars
in Christian Scholarship
The Seminars in Christian Scholarship program, sponsored
by Calvin College, seeks to promote high quality scholarship
that reflects a Christian perspective by encouraging Christian
scholars to pursue current research topics in their disciplines.
Two or more seminars are offered each summer. Participants
in each seminar discuss common readings during a residency
and work on individual research projects with the director
and fellow participants. Research papers are presented
at a conference the following spring and eventually published
as journal articles or as a volume edited by the seminar
leader.
The
2003 seminars are
"Written on the Heart: The Tradition of Natural Law" (J.
Budziszewski), "Prospects for Historicl Christian Litturgy
in a Postmodern Age" (Bryan Spinks) and "Christian Environmentalism
with/out Boundaries: Living as Part of God's Good Earth"
(5 leaders).
Web
Resources on Religion, Ethics and Culture:
A website by The
National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education,
an Association which Holy Cross belongs to, has created
a collaborative curricular website
on Arab culture, civilization and religion.
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