All applications should include:

• Cover letter of no more than 750 words outlining how your teaching and/or scholarship and research might connect to public engagement, as well as any relevant personal or professional experience that informs your interest in this work. Describe any experiences you have had as either a student or a teacher with engaged learning practices such as service projects or “service-learning.” Please include your name, mailing address, primary telephone, email address, department, and name of your advisor on the top right corner of your cover letter.
• Curriculum vitae
• Confidential letter of support from a faculty member that describes:
  
  1. The applicant’s standing in his or her graduate program
  2. The value of the Institute to the applicant’s present and future teaching and research
  3. The applicant’s leadership potential
• Optional letter of support from someone familiar with your civic/public engagement work, if applicable.
• Complete Obermann Graduate Institute Applications Checklist signed by the Director of Graduate Studies for your department.

The Obermann Graduate Institute Application Checklist will serve as the cover sheet for your application. Please have this sheet signed by the Director of Graduate Studies for your department. This signature indicates that if your application is accepted, your Graduate Director will support your participation in the Institute. The signed checklist/cover sheet should be scanned and sent via email to Neda Barrett (neda-barrett@uiowa.edu).

Applicants will be notified by mid November 2011. If you have questions or need any assistance having your application scanned, please email the organizers via neda-barrett@uiowa.edu