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The CL@P Fellowship
In a 2020 survey of 104 Penn graduate students, only 5% believed that Penn’s climate programming met their needs. With this statistic in hand, a group of students across Penn’s graduate schools created the multidisciplinary Climate Leaders @ Penn Fellowship. The fellowship is open to all Penn graduate students with an earnest interest in solving the climate crisis. It uses a yearly format and selective application process to assemble a diverse cohort representative of the university’s many graduate and professional programs. The inaugural cohort consisted of twenty students selected from a sixty-seven member applicant pool and contained students from seven of Penn’s graduate schools (see chart).
Tailored educational, professional, and social programming enables university-wide connections and learning to expand the climate expertise of the Penn graduate community while equipping the fellows and the community at large to address the climate crisis. Regular social events build connections between the fellows and produce a strong, lasting network of Penn students and alumni who work and study within the climate space.
The fellowship consists of a series of weekly to biweekly Friday Masterclasses and Social Events during the fall and spring semesters. The classes run from 90 minutes to two hours and may include a post-class social component. Each class has a unifying theme such as Renewable Energy or Sustainable Agriculture, industry speakers, and relevant educational readings (see table of Spring 2021 events below). Masterclasses will be both in-person, to take advantage of networking opportunities, and virtual, to take advantage of a wider pool of speakers. Attendance at Masterclasses is mandatory. Additional educational opportunities include a capstone project due near the end of the spring semester.
In a 2020 survey of 104 Penn graduate students, only 5% believed that Penn’s climate programming met their needs. With this statistic in hand, a group of students across Penn’s graduate schools created the multidisciplinary Climate Leaders @ Penn Fellowship. The fellowship is open to all Penn graduate students with an earnest interest in solving the climate crisis. It uses a yearly format and selective application process to assemble a diverse cohort representative of the university’s many graduate and professional programs. The inaugural cohort consisted of twenty students selected from a sixty-seven member applicant pool and contained students from seven of Penn’s graduate schools (see chart).
Tailored educational, professional, and social programming enables university-wide connections and learning to expand the climate expertise of the Penn graduate community while equipping the fellows and the community at large to address the climate crisis. Regular social events build connections between the fellows and produce a strong, lasting network of Penn students and alumni who work and study within the climate space.
The fellowship consists of a series of weekly to biweekly Friday Masterclasses and Social Events during the fall and spring semesters. The classes run from 90 minutes to two hours and may include a post-class social component. Each class has a unifying theme such as Renewable Energy or Sustainable Agriculture, industry speakers, and relevant educational readings (see table of Spring 2021 events below). Masterclasses will be both in-person, to take advantage of networking opportunities, and virtual, to take advantage of a wider pool of speakers. Attendance at Masterclasses is mandatory. Additional educational opportunities include a capstone project due near the end of the spring semester.
