Emerging Scholars Program
The Emerging Scholars (ES) program is designed as an academic mentoring opportunity for students who are eager to intentionally integrate robust faith and rigorous scholarship with an eye toward becoming persons of influence in a variety of academic and vocational fields.
Emerging Scholars are upper year undergraduate students or graduate students who are interested in a period of focused, guided reflection and original thinking on the integration of faith and academic life.
The program runs one academic year. It consists of the following components:
- 1. Bi-weekly seminars to discuss academic progress, questions, and future lines of inquiry.
- 2. Attendance at 2 off-campus weekend events per semester. These are generally community events in which ES’s are introduced to peers on other campuses for the purpose of further networking and the formation of the whole student.
- 3. Successful completion of 4 critical/constructive essays per year (2 per semester) which focus on analysis of historical and contemporary currents within the student’s academic discipline. These papers, once finished, become part of an online database of resources for others through the Centre.
- Essay 1: What is the current state of the discipline? What is the creational order for this area of life? Where is there creational insight in ‘secular scholarship’? And, what benefits does the discipline offer (to scholarship, the Church, and life holistically understood)?
- Essay 2: Where or how has this area of life/scholarship been twisted by cultural idolatry? What do you or others in the field believe to be unhelpful aspects within the discipline?
- Essay 3: Taking a long view of the development of the discipline, please sketch the history of the discipline, paying special attention to sub-currents within it over the last century or two. Answer the question: How did we get to today - the positives and the negatives?
- Essay 4: What healing paths are open for this area of life/scholarship? What insights/contributions does Christian faith offer to the discipline to correct any perceived unhelpful developments and move the discipline forward in the positive areas?
Students receive an honourarium of $1,000/semester for their acceptance into and successful participation in this program.
We encourage applicants to apply as soon as possible. Applications received by April 1 will be given priority. Selected students will be notified by May 15.