Sustainability Fellowship Program - Christopher Newport University

Sustainability Fellowship Program

Do you care about your campus, your community and your planet? Do you see a real campus need that you would like to offer an innovative, feasible, sustainable and well-researched solution to?

A year-long sustainability fellowship could be the place for you to gain real-world experience applying your knowledge to identify, analyze, develop and implement practical and sustainable solutions to problems and challenges on our campus.

  • Complete a Sustainability Fellowship Project Proposal
  • Find a faculty mentor
  • Have your faculty mentor write a brief letter of support for your and your project
  • Find a campus partner
  • Complete the Sustainability Fellowship Application by Friday, April 5, 2024.

If you have any questions or need help finding a faculty mentor, contact Dr. Linda Manning, associate professor of communication and director of the Center for Sustainability in Education at lmanning@cnu.edu.

  • Design a plan of action to address the problem in a sustainable way
  • Develop a reasonable plan of action for implementation, and, if possible:
    • Implement the plan on campus
  • Present the results of your project at sustainability panel at Paideia
  • Earn a $1,500 stipend (paid over four installments)
  • Faculty mentor will receive $500
  • Project implementation funds of up to $500
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