Fellows Program

CTP Fellowship Description:

The CTP Fellowship is awarded to up to 4 students from each of Vanderbilt University’s participating professional schools.  The purpose of the fellowship is to support the leadership development of Vanderbilt’s professional students.  The requirements for the fellowship include the following:

1.    Participation in the CTP Summer Leadership Retreat.  This retreat takes place at Pennyrile State Park, in Kentucky.   At this retreat, students will explore issues of professionalism, leadership and ethics.

2.    Participation in the CTP “leadership laboratory.”  The leadership laboratory provides participants with an opportunity to explore their leadership skills in a local setting in Nashville.  We seek to address issues of moral concern that cross the professions.  This past year, we worked on issues of homelessness, poverty, intimate violence, immigration and at risk-teen nutrition.  The leadership laboratories require at least 30 hours of involvement, in partnership with other Fellows, to address significant social problems, utilizing both leadership skills and professional expertise.  In addition to providing hands-on leadership, participants will also submit a brief report (1-3 pages) on their experience at the end of the academic year. Meetings to discuss the progress of projects and to receive faculty and peer feedback will take place over the course of the year.  

3.    Participants are expected to participate in two Leadership Development workshops, which the Cal Turner Program sponsors.  The schedule for these workshops is:

4.    Fellows are expected to participate in other CTP events over the course of the year. There are 3 dinners (mandatory) as well as 6 lunches (2 out of 6 required). These events are designed to promote interaction and sharing among the Fellows.  
    
5.    Finally, participants should expect to serve as ambassadors for the CTP in their schools, and to advise the program director and staff, in order to help build a more effective program.

In exchange for their participation, fellows receive all the benefits of participation, a CTP leadership certificate, and a $1000 stipend (paid in two installments, one at the end of December 2011, and the final payment at the end of May 2012).

2011-2012 Fellows:

Owen Graduate School of Management: Samuel J. Frank Melissa A. Skinner Daniel J. Angius Mario Avila School of Nursing: Meghan E. Rowland Joseph Ojibway Asa T. Briggs Richard Clews Law School: Ana Valisa Berber-Thayer Daniel A. Horwitz Cong (Denny) Nie Courtnee Reid School of Engineering Todd Peter Lagus

Peabody College of Education: Shaka Dickerson Hannah Grace Rowland Karishma Merchant Elizabeth A. Ehly Divinity School: Allyn L. Steele Zach Carmichael Emily Rowell School of Medicine: Eryka Gayle William Sullivan Rachel Ruiz

2011 - 2012 Faculty Fellows

Owen Graduate School of Management

• Bart Victor - Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership

Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

• Carol Etherington - Associate Director of Community Health Initiatives; Assistant Professor of Nursing; Vanderbilt University Center for Medicine, Health and Society
• Alfredo Vergara - Associate Director for Program Implementation; Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine

Peabody College of Education and Human Development

• Claire Smrekar - Associate Professor of Public Policy and Education