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SUMMER 2024 APPLICATION

Our Summer 2024 Application is now open. Please use the form below to submit an initial application by Feb. 29, 2024. A complete application includes contact information; a CV/resume and brief answers to the following prompts:

  • Why do you want to work with Freedom Fellows this summer?

  • Please describe the topics, ideas, or concepts that you would like to facilitate engagement with during your course.

  • Our mission is to facilitate classrooms where Fellows learn to express themselves, critically analyze their world, and develop their capacity to transform it. Please describe how your course would contribute to part of that mission.

  • (1) How would your course benefit our Fellows who thrive in traditional academic settings? (2) How would your course benefit our Fellows who struggle in traditional academic settings or have difficulty with reading/writing/quantitative reasoning? (3) How would you approach the course in a way that accommodates both of these groups of Fellows?

Applicants advancing beyond the initial application will be invited to have an introductory conversation with our program staff and be sent supplementary application questions, followed by an interview with Freedom Project site staff in March/April. For more information about the application and the program, see Teach with Us or Frequently Asked Questions.

  • Summer 2024 Application

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Our commitment to diversity in recruiting and selecting applicants:

We are committed to bringing doctoral candidates of different races, ethnicities, economic backgrounds, physical abilities, genders, sexual orientations, political and religious beliefs, universities, and academic disciplines to teach our students. Part of the argument that we’re making to students is that the most rigorous college classrooms are places where they can thrive and succeed. We make that argument when our teachers hold students to the intellectual expectations of the college classrooms at the research universities where they teach and study. When our teachers share the racial or economic background of our students, that argument is made even stronger. Therefore, we place an additional focus on recruiting doctoral candidates of color and from low-income backgrounds.