Greenleaf Scholars Program
Overview
The Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership is proud to sponsor the Greenleaf Scholars Program. The purpose of the program is to select and support promising early career scholars and professionals who wish to study the impact of servant leadership in a wide range of organizational or social contexts. The program is administered through The National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good at the University of Michigan.
The goals of the program are (1) to inspire a new generation of critical scholarship based on the concepts of servant leadership that were articulated by Robert K. Greenleaf; (2) to support rigorous empirical studies that offer evidence of the impact of servant leadership on the health and effectiveness of organizations and communities; and (3) to build a nurturing community of academic researchers, practitioners, and students who study and teach servant leadership.
Scholarship Awards
The Greenleaf Center will sponsor up to five awards each year for pre-tenured faculty, early career practitioners, and advanced graduate students who engage in research that explores servant leadership. Greenleaf Scholars will be selected by an international review committee comprised of faculty members from the following public and private universities in the United States and overseas, including:
University of Michigan
University of Detroit Mercy
Georgia Institute of Technology
VU University Amsterdam
Gonzaga University
University of Notre Dame
Each Greenleaf Scholar will receive an award of U.S. $2,500 to support outstanding research. Additionally, award recipients will receive support for the following:
- Conference registration fees waived for attendance at the Greenleaf Center's Annual International Conferences both while the Scholar is conducting his or her sponsored research and when the Scholar's research is presented.
- Inclusion of the Scholar's manuscript in an annual National Forum edited monograph and encouragement to publish the research in peer reviewed journals.
Qualifications
All recipients should hold a doctorate (no more than 5 years post degree) or be at the dissertation stage of their doctoral studies.
Application Materials
Application materials consist of Form A and Form B, as well as a checklist. Applications for the 2012 Award were dure March 14, 2012. For your reference, they may still be downloaded in a word document by clicking here.
Deadline
All applications materials must have been received by the National Forum no later than
Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Applicants will be notified of the decision for the 2012 award in late April.
Inquiries
Inquiries about the program or the award may be sent to: greenleafscholars@umich.edu.
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