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Watson Scholarship Deadline
Watson Scholarship Deadline
Thursday, September 9
The mission of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Program is to offer
college graduates of unusual promise a year of independent, purposeful
exploration and travel outside of the United States in order to enhance
their capacity for resourcefulness, imagination, openness, and
leadership and to foster their humane and effective participation in
the world community. The stipend for the fellowship year is $25,000
($35,000 for fellows accompanied by a spouse or dependent child).
Watson Fellows must create, execute, and evaluate their own projects.
When they wake up in the morning, most Watson Fellows ask themselves,
What am I going to do today? A fellowship year may include some time
spent learning a language, or dance steps, or a scientific method, and
during those times a fellow may be subject to someone else's agenda.
However, the Watson Fellowship is intended to be a time when fellows
are their own advisors. The fellow should decide how questions can be
answered, when it is time to move on, if a project must be adjusted in
any way, etc. It is for this reason that Watson Fellows do not
affiliate themselves with an academic institution, do not spend 12
months exclusively in a training course, and do not have volunteer work
for institutions like Habitat for Humanity as their primary activity.
Some fellows undertake volunteer work to gain access to people they
wish to observe or interview, but in such cases the fellow should feel
that he/she is still in charge of the project. More information...