A prestigious new undergraduate student award has recently been announced by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) and 3M Canada. Called the 3M National Student Fellowships, these awards are for students actively engaged in leadership activities and who have shown an interest in advancing student learning. Each award is worth $5,000, a total of ten awards will be presented to full-time undergraduate students at Canadian colleges and universities.
Students must be nominated for this award and should be prepared to participate in an ongoing conversation around improving the quality of post-secondary education in Canada through membership on an advisory committee, attendance at a national conference and through various cohort activities through the year. The goal of this award is to help build a cohort of students who are able to gather, reflect and grow at the national level. Nominees need to have completed at least one-session of full-time study but have not yet entered their final year of study. Students who would like to find out more about the award are encouraged to review the information posted on the STLHE website at: http://www.stlhe.ca/3m-national-student-fellowship/
The submission deadline for the inaugural round of application is January 7, 2012.