Deadline:
As soon as possible
Location(s)
Worldwide
Overview
The Millennium Fellowship is a semester-long leadership development program that happens on your campus. The United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are here to elevate your leadership
Thank you to the 15,000+ applicants from 1,400+ campuses for the Class of 2024. The Application for the Class of 2025 is now open for undergraduate students around to the world.
Details
Convene
As part of a cohort of 8-20+ Millennium Fellows on your campus, convene to learn from and challenge each other.
CHALLENGE
Develop a plan of action for your sessions together. Meet to exchange best practices. And you could think bigger: organizing a campus-wide sustainability initiative or more.
CELEBRATE
When your Fellowship Campus meets the goals you made for yourselves, you will earn a certificate of recognition from United Nations Academic Impact and Millennium Campus Network.
In Fellowship sessions (a minimum of 8 convenings between August and November), Millennium Fellows convene on their respective campuses. During these sessions, Campus Directors will lead you through the MCN Action Toolkit - an adaptive curriculum to help you reflect on core values, hone skills, and take informed action for UN goals. The curriculum is experiential - it is meant to be applied to help you grow as a leader in real-time as you manage your Project. As a campus hub, you will get exposed to a variety of elements during the Fellowship sessions as part of the the MCN Action Toolkit:
- cultivating core values (empathy, humility, inclusion).
- honing hard skills (how to write a budget, create SMART goals).
- honing soft skills (team management, pitching your Project).
- peer to peer feedback - sharing best practices to help each other overcome obstacles to your Project and exploring further opportunities for collaboration.
You will take on the challenge - engaging in peer to peer feedback to support Projects of your peers as you lead your own. As a campus hub, you may also choose to take on a collective action - for example, working with your administration to update a campus sustainability plan. If you have been an active Millennium Fellow and completed your Project, we will celebrate your work: you will earn a certificate recognizing successful completion of your Millennium Fellowship Project from United Nations Academic Impact and MCN. All of us at United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are also looking forward to hearing and sharing your stories of impact advancing the SDGs and UNAI principles in your communities - be sure to reflect and share videos/photos/articles of what you have learned and accomplished through this program.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
You must be at least 18 years old, an undergraduate enrolled in a college or university, and in good standing at that academic institution for the duration of the program.
You make a commitment to convene in-person least eight times during the Millennium Fellowship with your Campus Directors and other Fellows on your campus to share best practices and take collective action. Students have to meet on-campus, in-person for the Fellowship sessions. If you miss sessions, this is grounds for expulsion and the forfeiture of your designation as a Millennium Fellow. Campus Directors have additional responsibilities as noted in FAQs section on "Campus Director Applicants."
Note: We aim to accept at least eight Millennium Fellows from each Campus Hub (with two Campus Directors). Most Campus Hubs will typically have 8-20 Millennium Fellows. The Fellowship is about forming community; therefore we encourage you to share the program with other prospective Fellows on your campus and encourage them to apply as well.
The Millennium Fellowship program is open for undergraduate students only. Graduate students are not eligible.
Who Is A Campus Director? Should I Apply?
Campus Directors are top Millennium Fellows -undergraduate students who are leading social change on their campuses - who have been selected to facilitate their Campus Hub. There are 2 Campus Directors per Campus. You apply for this leadership role as part of your Millennium Fellowship application, and commit to the following:
- Being the primary point of contact for Fellows at their Campus Hub as well as for the MCN Fellowship management team, including regular communication.
- 4 hours of training via webinar in the 2 weeks prior to the Fellowship launch.
- Working with your Co-Director to arrange and hold one-to-one sessions with each of the Fellows who will be in their Campus Hub.
- Working with your Co-Director, facilitate Fellowship sessions, including developing Goals and Objectives for your site, taking attendance, submitting documentation for your site, and ensuring that a final story and feedback forms are submitted.
Dates
Deadline: As soon as possible
Cost/funding for participants
There is no registration fee to apply to or participate in this program for the Class of 2025. All admitted Millennium Fellows are supported in engaging on their respective campuses for the duration of the Fellowship.
Benefits:
- One-to-one and small group mentorship from the MCN team, including both personal and Fellowship-based mentorship and networking opportunities to support your success in social impact work.
- Opportunities to connect with and learn from other top Campus Directors on campuses across the globe, building your global peer and professional network. As we expand across the globe, we will look to you as thought partners in continuing to develop this program. You can help shape a leadership development network that thousands of students around the world will benefit from.
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