The Office of the Dean of Students liaises with external organizations that provide students with the opportunity to win prestigious awards. This web page contains information about each of these recognition opportunities. Further information, application forms, and specific deadlines can be obtained from the Office.
The XIV Dalai Lama Fellowships
Deadline: Wednesday, 2 November 2011 at noon.
Eligibility: Candidates must be full‐time (24 credit) undergraduate* degree students with a minimum 3.00 GPA. Candidates must also be returning to full-time studies the following year.
What would you do if you had up to $10,000 to make a difference?
This global education program engages students in advancing the values of interconnectedness, compassion, collaboration, contemplation, humility and service. One student or will be selected from McGill University to receive the Dalai Lama Fellowship, which includes extensive leadership training and up to $10,000 to develop and implement a project over the summer of 2012 and the 2012‐2013 academic year.
The project can be carried out anywhere in the world in any one of the following areas:
1. Encouraging cross‐cultural and inter‐religious understanding and cooperation;
2. Mitigating income and wealth inequities;
3. Diminishing violence;
4. Promoting environmental sustainability.
Terms:
- Candidates will develop a project, prepare a budget, and identify a McGill professor who will serve as their mentor if they obtain the fellowship.
- The selected Fellow will participate in a Leadership Development Retreat with the Fellows from a dozen other universities and citizen sector organizations (June 2012) in California before the project begins.
- The Fellow will be expected to return to McGill the following academic year and integrate the project into the life of the university.
- The Fellow will participate in Global Learning Community activities while at McGill the following academic year, and be a member of the Community lifelong.
- The Fellow will attend a second Leadership Development Retreat the following June with Fellows from 2012‐2013 and the Fellows selected for the following year.
- Duration: 9‐12 weeks in the summer of 2012 with obligations over the following academic year (a few hours a week).
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For more information visit http://dalailamacenter.org/programs/dalai-lama-fellows.
Application Procedure:
- Complete the application form available at https://fs4.formsite.com/dalailamafellowsorg/form5/secure_index.html
- Provide seven (7) copies of the completed application form to the Office of the Dean of Students by noon on Wednesday, 2 November 2011.
Please note that only one McGill applicant will be selected to submit their final application directly to the Dalai Lama Center.
Please forward your questions to deanofstudents [at] mcgill [dot] ca.
The Dalai Lama Fellowship has no religious or political affiliation.
* Please note that at McGill, eligibility is limited to returning undergraduate students.
The Forces AVENIR Awards
***NEW THIS YEAR: Online Application
When: Applications are due March 30, 2012 at noon.
N.B. Please submit one double-sided copy and C.D. of the application to the Office of the Dean of Students on the downtown campus or the Student Services Office at Macdonald Campus.
Eligibility: Full-time students who fit the criteria described on the Forces AVENIR Web Site.
Forces AVENIR's principal goal is to recognize and promote university students who, through their dynamism, initiative and commitment to their community contribute to the advancement of society. Finalists share 33 prestigious grants each year. In addition, McGill finalists are honoured at a University reception.
Students may apply under the Personality category (graduate or undergraduate), or under one of the Project categories:
- Business and Economy
- Arts, Literature and Culture
- Mutual Aid, Peace and Justice
- Environment
- Health
- Science and Technology
- Communications, Education and Society
Applications are submitted to the Office of the Dean of Students in March. A McGill screening committee chooses up to two applications per category. These are then forwarded to Forces AVENIR, where a provincial jury selects finalists and winners. More information is available at www.forcesavenir.qc.ca.
The Rhodes Scholarships
When: September
Eligibility: Full-time students at McGill University who are available to study at Oxford University the year after applying.
Each year in early September, information sessions are offered to help students who wish to apply for the Rhodes Scholarships. These sessions are designed to provide details and answer questions pertaining to requirements, application procedures, and McGill's internal screening process.
Rhodes Scholars are elected for two years of study at the University of Oxford, with the possibility of renewal for a third year. All educational costs, such as matriculation, tuition, laboratory and certain other fees, are paid on the Scholar's behalf by the Rhodes Trustees. Each Scholar receives in addition a maintenance allowance adequate to meet necessary expenses for term-time and vacations. The Rhodes Trustees cover the necessary costs of travel to and from Oxford, and upon application, may approve additional grants for research purposes or study-related travel.
Candidates must apply through McGill's two-step internal screening process. The McGill process generally consists of two rounds of interviews, after which successful applicants will be given the access code to submit their application online.
Please note that the deadline for submitting applications to the Office of the Dean of Students for McGill's internal selection process will be in early September 2011. The exact date has yet to be determined.
Information sessions are held in the spring and late summer.
To register, or for more information, please call 514-398-1731.
Summer 2011 Information Sessions
Downtown Campus
Brown Student Services Building, Room 4300
Monday, 29 August, 2011
10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2011
10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
and
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Wednesday, 31 August, 2011
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
and
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, 1 September, 2011
10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
and
3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Friday, 2 September, 2011
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
and
11 a.m. to noon
Macdonald Campus
Centennial Centre, Room CC-207
Friday, 2 September, 2011
1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
To apply: Applicants must apply online at www.canadianrhodes.org
The Golden Key Scholar Awards
The Office of the Dean of Students serves in an advisory capacity to the student executive and members of the Golden Key Chapter at McGill. As a courtesy to the Chapter, the Office of the Dean of Students receives applications annually and then forwards them to the national Chapter.
When: September/October
Eligibility: Students in the top 15% of their faculty at the end of each academic year
Golden Key International Honour Society is an international, nonprofit organization with 270 collegiate chapters at major colleges and universities in Canada, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Australia, Malaysia and the United States. Leaders in higher education, business and public service are members of Golden Key and support the Society.
Members are eligible for scholarships, and Golden Key continually works toward increasing its scholarships and awards programs. With 17 active programs last year, the Society honored more than 700 members with exclusive scholarships totaling more than US$500,000.
Each year, invitations are extended to students in the top 15% of their Faculty offering them the opportunity to join Golden Key.
For further information about the Golden Key Chapter at McGill e-mail info [at] goldenkeymcgill [dot] org (Golden Key) or go to mcgill.goldenkey.org.
