Undergraduate College Fellow
What do Fellows do?
The fellows program has been instrumental to my collegiate career. It has helped me to feel like I was part of something small. You are probably surprised to hear me say small. It seems in life we strive to be part of something bigger than ourselves, but I think finding ourselves part of a smaller community can be even more of an enriching experience. The College Fellows program was a way for me to be interconnected with the smaller community of my Undergraduate College of Global Studies and the even smaller community made up of my Undergraduate College Fellows class and the GLS team.
–James Olszlewski,
GLS Fellow
Read more of James’s 2009 commencement speech to the College Fellows here.
The Undergraduate Colleges provide an opportunity for motivated emerging leaders to become Undergraduate College Fellows. This two semester sequence provides an opportunity for students to serve as peer mentors in their sophomore year. Upon acceptance into the program, prospective Fellows enroll in the Undergraduate College Fellows Seminar, spring semester of their first-year. Following completion of the seminar, students are fully recognized as Undergraduate College Fellows.
In the following summer and fall Undergraduate College Fellows welcome the next class of first-year students at Orientation, Opening, and in the First-Year Seminars. Fellows serve as Teaching Assistants for the First-Year Seminar.