Insightful Leadership
The Citizen Leaders Fellowship—a partnership with the Contemplative Sciences Center, the International Studies Office, and UVA Athletics—offers students a year-long leadership opportunity to gain skills needed to flourish during their time at UVA and after graduation.
OVERVIEW
The Citizen Leaders Fellowship—a partnership with the Contemplative Sciences Center, the International Studies Office, and UVA Athletics—offers students a year-long leadership opportunity to gain skills needed to flourish during their time at UVA and after graduation.
Eligible UVA students from the international student, student athlete, and transfer student communities identify a specific, pressing challenge to the well-being or flourishing of their peers or larger communities and spend their fellowship year de- signing and implementing programs to overcome those challenges with evidence-based tools.
Fellows emerge with their own style of citizen leadership, enabling them to lead engaged and values-driven lives, while mak- ing it possible for others to do the same.
The Fellowship highlights the concept of flourishing to help students envision the forms of engagement they would like to see on Grounds to enhance the well-being of their student community, or some subset within it. Through a series of reflective ac- tivities, direct mentorship, and academic engagement, Fellows learn a combination of contemplative and ethnographic meth- ods, dispositions, and practices to create change within themselves and the communities they care about.
Learn more:
“New Fellowship Supports International Student Flourishing”
“Helping UVA Student-Athletes Flourish”
“Empowering Student-athletes is at the Heart of an Exciting New Fellowship”