What is the Identity Project (IP) Fellowship?

The IP Fellowship is a year-long research-practice internship that is integrated into your HGSE program experience. You will engage in graduate coursework and applied research tailored toward race-based equity in schools. This fellowship provides advanced, hands-on training and coursework in adolescents’ ethnic-racial identity (ERI) development, culturally sustaining pedagogy, implementation of a school-based intervention, and research methods.

IP Fellows become integral members of an ongoing research-practice project. You will be placed in a local high school classroom to support a teacher (and their students) as they lead the Identity Project. The Identity Project is an evidence-based curriculum that provides students with opportunities to explore and better understand their own ethnic and racial-related identities. IP Fellows will be trained in the Identity Project curriculum and the Equipping Educators for Equity Through Ethnic-Racial Identity (E⁴) professional development program designed collaboratively with local educators to prepare teachers to engage with students on issues of race, ethnicity, and identity. Finally, as an IP Fellow, you will be trained and actively involved in qualitative, quantitative, and observational data collection.

In addition to advanced coursework and training in research methods, field experience working closely with an educator implementing the Identity Project, and the opportunity to work and learn with a large research team, IP Fellows receive a $3,000 fellowship stipend ($1,500 in Fall/$1,500 in Spring). This stipend is considered an award and will not affect financial aid eligibility.