The Residential College for Arts and Humanities at MSU collaborates with The Graduate School to sponsor three fellowship programs.
The Residential College for Arts and Humanities at MSU collaborates with The Graduate School to sponsor three fellowship programs.
The primary goals of RCAH Graduate Fellowship Program in Undergraduate Teaching and Learning are to provide a diverse cohort of graduate students committed to a career in interdisciplinary undergraduate education with professional development opportunities outside of regular classroom instruction and to prepare fellows to make meaningful contributions to the scholarship and/or design of teaching and learning in areas important to RCAH.
RCAH Graduate Fellows will be supported in disseminating project results in peer-reviewed journals and venues, at conferences, and will present at year-end symposia.
Graduate Fellows in the CLAC Fellowship Program focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning in interdisciplinary, translingual, and transcultural settings.
Representing multiple MSU colleges, Graduate Language Fellows participate in different components of the RCAH’s Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) Program.
Exploring pedagogical principles and practices of transformational teaching, Graduate Language Fellows may facilitate project-based language immersion sessions (Integrated Language Options) for RCAH undergraduates, collaborate with faculty to bring first-hand cultural insights about specific topics as guest speakers in RCAH courses, or create CLAC-related events for the wider community.
Graduate Fellows will be supported in disseminating project results in peer-reviewed journals and venues, at conferences, and will present at year-end symposia.
In Fall 2023, RCAH launched the Arts Living Learning Community (LLC).
The Arts LLC will serve as the heart of the arts at MSU over the coming years and seeks to fully integrate the arts into the MSU undergraduate experience by creating a non-curricular, living-learning community focusing on socially engaged arts.
RCAH Arts and Community Engagement Graduate Fellows will provide support to ongoing community engagement projects and community partnerships, arts programming, and other non-curricular projects, including workshops, co-curricular programming, and access to the University’s extensive arts exhibitions and performances.
Graduate Fellows will be supported in disseminating project results in peer-reviewed journals and venues, at conferences, and will present at year-end symposia.
Eligible graduate students must be enrolled full-time in any MSU college, be in good academic standing, and be making progress toward a terminal degree in their field.
Those applying for a CLAC Graduate Fellowship must also have (near) native fluency in any language other than English.
Candidates with experience teaching undergraduates, experience working in the fellowship area to which they are applying, and whose work is likely to further RCAH’s mission and vision will be given higher consideration.
Each fellow receives a stipend of $3,250/semester to help support research project expenses, professional development workshops, and/or travel to professional conferences.
Graduate Fellowship Recipients do not receive benefits or tuition reimbursement as part of the award, but the award can be held in addition to other MSU assistantships.
You must be enrolled during the semester(s) that you receive funding. Continuation of any fellowship is contingent upon fulfilling the responsibilities of the program that will be outlined in the first meeting of the academic year.
Responsibilities include:
Given the community focused nature of all RCAH Fellowship Programs, fellows who are unable to attend in-person for weeks at a time will not be considered.
For further information or questions, please contact Alyssa Briones or Professor Torrez.
The Selection Committee will begin reviewing applications on April 25, 2026, with preference given to applications received by April 18, 2026.