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 Career Development
Center
  Occidental College
 1600 Campus Road,
Coons 109
 Los Angeles, CA
 90041-3314

 Email: careers@oxy.edu
 Phone: 323.259.2623
 Fax: 323.341.4900

Career Development Center

 

MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT FELLOWSHIPS

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship

The Karajan Fellowship for Young Conductors

The Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship

The Lemelson Center Fellows Program

The Moy Fellowships for Young Musicians
Newhouse Minority Fellows

Orchestra Management Fellowship Program

Student Academy Awards

Summer Fellowship Program

 

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship

U.S. Department of Education

Post Grad

Deadline: early October, 2008

http://www.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits

The program provides financial assistance to students who have demonstrated: superior academic ability and achievement; exceptional promise; financial need to undertake graduate study leading to a doctoral degree or a master's degree in which the master's degree is the terminal highest degree in the selected field of study. The Department of Education awards fellowships in selected fields of study of the arts, humanities and social sciences.

 

 

The Karajan Fellowship for Young Conductors
http://www.aaf-online.org/karajan.htm

Program details to be announced.

 

The Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Deadline: December 3, 2007
http://www.faa.uiuc.edu/about_faa/pdf/KNK.pdf
Each Fellowship is for one academic year of study in a program approved by the Committee. The place of study may be in America or abroad, in an approved educational institution, with an approved private teacher, or in independent study.
Theatre — History/Research
Applicants in theatre history should submit two writing samples or publications of their research.
Theatre — Playwriting
Applicants in playwriting should submit one full-length, one-act play (50-90 pages with no intermission) that has not been produced.

 

The Lemelson Center Fellows Program
Smithsonian
Deadline: January 2008. More details to follow.
http://invention.smithsonian.org/resources/research_fellowships.aspx 
The Lemelson Center Fellows Program supports projects that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in American society. These include, but are not limited to, historical research and documentation projects resulting in publications, exhibitions, educational initiatives, and multimedia products. The fellowship program provides access to the Smithsonian's vast artifact and archival collections, as well as to the expertise of the Institution's research staff.

The Moy Fellowships for Young Musicians
http://www.aaf-online.org/moy.htm 

Program details to be announced. Please contact organization for more information.
 

Newhouse Minority Fellows

Syracuse University- Syracuse, New York
Deadline: February 2008. More details to follow.
http://newhousemasters.syr.edu/prospective/meritAid.cfm
The Newhouse Graduate Fellowship and Apprenticeship in Newspaper Journalism for Minorities seeks students with outstanding qualifications and the potential to make significant contributions to the field of newspaper journalism. It also seeks to increase the number of minority journalists in the country.
Applicant must be a U.S. citizen and member of an under-represented group: African American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American or Asian, have an undergraduate degree from an accredited college or university in a field other than journalism, have and undergraduate GPA of B or better. The winner gets free tuition for master’s level study in newspaper journalism at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Also, he will receive part-time reporting and editing student internship during graduate school, $1,100 monthly stipend, health insurance coverage, moving expenses, travel expenses, academic expenses and full-time paid professional internship after graduation for one year as a reporter at Newhouse Paper.

 

Orchestra Management Fellowship Program
Deadline: February 1, 2008
http://www.symphony.org/ola/fellowship.shtml
The American Symphony Orchestra League's Orchestra Management Fellowship Program is a year-long leadership training program designed to launch executive careers in orchestra management through the observation of management practices in host orchestras, an intense course of study, and valuable hands-on work experiences. Through residencies with orchestras of various sizes, as well as seminars in leadership development and a comprehensive overview of the concert music industry, Fellowship Program and host orchestra staff nurture the abilities in each Fellow. Fellowship Program graduates hold over 75 leadership positions in American orchestras - 28 are executive directors.


 

Student Academy Awards  

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Undergrad/post grad  

Deadline: April 2008. More info to follow.

http://www.oscars.org/saa/

The Student Academy Awards is a national competition conducted by the Academy and the Academy Foundation. Each year over 300 college and university film students from all over the United States compete for awards and cash grants, with films being judged in four categories: animation, documentary, narrative and alternative. An outstanding student filmmaker from outside the U.S. is honored each year as well. The presentation ceremony is a popular event that is annually attended by a capacity audience in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

 

Summer Fellowship Program

International Radio and Television Society Foundation

New York City

Deadline: December 2, 2007

http://www.irts.org/programs/sfp/sfp.html

The Summer Fellowship Program, the most notable student out-reach effort of IRTS, teaches up-and-coming communicators the realities of the business world through an all-expense-paid fellowship, which includes practical experience and career-planning advice. A select number of college Juniors, Seniors and Graduate students are chosen from over 800 applicants across the country to attend the Summer Fellowship Program.

 


 

 

Last updated:06/04/08