Nominate a student who has demonstrated outstanding leadership through their civic and community engagement or research and an ability to coordinate collective efforts to overcome community- or societal-based challenges through their work with other students, campus members, or the community at large. In line with Transform Mid-Atlantic’s strategic initiatives, your institution’s nominee should understand the importance of cross-cultural engagement and advancing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) through their work – as well as their individual role in contributing toward collective systemic change.

We encourage you to recognize a student whose leadership and efforts might otherwise not be raised up, and we encourage presidents to give preference to students from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in higher education.

Your institution’s 2022-2023 Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellow nominee should:

• Be enrolled at a Transform Mid-Atlantic member institution during spring semester 2022.
• Be nominated by your institution’s president, with input from TMA campus SAGE members and other community engaged stakeholders encouraged.
• Be an associate's degree, undergraduate, or graduate student. Please remember that each institution is allowed to nominate just one Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellow. Presidents at institutions that enroll both undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to select an undergraduate student.
• Have one year or more of undergraduate or graduate education remaining. (i.e. nominees should be enrolled at their nominating institution for the entire 2022-2023 academic year)
• Nominees from institutions that exclusively confer associate's degrees should either have one year of academic studies remaining at their institution or plans to transfer to a 4-year institution in Maryland, Washington, D.C., or Delaware.
• Commit to writing a brief statement about their work and future plans to Transform Mid-Atlantic during their fellowship year.
• Receive the support and advisement of their institution’s Senior Advisory Group for Engagement (SAGE) member or other campus-based designee throughout the 2022-2023 Fellowship year.

The fellowship year follows the academic calendar and will begin September 1, 2023. It will end on May 30, 2024. Fellowship gatherings and events will take into consideration scheduling considerations of the academic calendar.

No. There is no monetary award associated with the Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship. It is an experiential based program focused on developing Fellows' understandings of leadership and their capacity to contribute toward positive social change.

No. We encourage host institutions to support their Civic Fellows in partially or completely covering the cost of any transportation necessitated by the in-person gathering. TMA staff will work with institutions on a case-by-case basis to ensure that Civic Fellows receive adequate support to attend all sessions.

To nominate a student for this fellowship, fill out this form. To preview the information requested in the nomination form, please see this preview document.

Transform Mid-Atlantic disaffiliated from the organization based in Boston known as Campus Compact on June 30, 2022. You may have received communications throughout the Spring 2022 semester regarding TMA’s disaffiliation and rebranding process, including TMA’s new name and logo. Given these changes, the Newman Civic Fellowship will be unavailable to TMA member institutions that do not select to also become direct members of Campus Compact in 2023-2024. Throughout Fall 2021, as our network was conducting due diligence regarding its affiliation with Campus Compact, our members requested that we launch our own regional civic fellowship program. This fellowship has been developed in response to that request.

Regardless of your institution’s affiliation with the organization based in Boston, you are invited to nominate a student for the Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship. Since many of our members have indicated that they will not become direct members of Campus Compact, this Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship will act as a replacement program for the Newman Civic Fellowship and an additional benefit for those institutions that are members of both TMA and the Campus Compact organization.