[Reading-hall-of-fame] Website now open - Please help us recruit applicants to RHoF Emerging Scholars Fellowship Program

[Paratore, Jeanne]

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the RHoF Emerging Scholars Fellowship Committee (formerly Supporting Young Scholars Program), I am writing to share some news and also to request your help. First, the news:

1.  New name!

At the request of the RHoF Executive Board, the Committee considered whether describing award recipients as  RHoF  "fellows” rather than “mentees” might increase the  prestige of the award. Members of the Committee were unanimous in support of this idea, leading to the new name: RHoF Emerging Scholars Fellowship Program.

2.  Initial funding for this program was provided by sales of the book, Changing Literacies for Changing Times (Routledge, 2009), co-edited by James Hoffman and Yetta Goodman. The budget for this program is small, leading us to cap the number of awards going forward to two per year. Hall of Fame members are invited to voluntarily supplement funds so that the program will be sustained over many years.

3.  During the first four years of this program, as committee members have acted on each year’s applications, there have been a number of discussions about a few of the guidelines in the original description. After much discussion, the Committee approved the following revisions to the policy:


  *   Specified that eligibility is limited to those in tenure-track positions. (This is the way the policy has been enacted, but it was not explicitly stated as such in the guidelines.)
  *   Reduced mentoring commitment from four to two years. (Committee agreed that this might increase the pool of interested mentors.)
  *   Eliminated requirement that mentors cannot co-author (as second or later author) articles with mentees.

Next, a request for your help.

With the help of Neil Liwanag, RHoF’s wonderful webmaster, we have updated the website, and it is now open for the submission of applications. The deadline for submission is June 15th. In the past, we have found that the best source for recruiting applicants is through the RHoF membership—notifying your own doctoral students seems to yield the most applications. So, we are asking you to send the link below to all qualified young scholars and encourage them to apply. The link to the website it:

http://www.readinghalloffame.org/reading-hall-fame-emerging-scholars-fellowship

Finally, we are ALWAYS in search of mentors, so if you are interested in guiding one of our recipients, please let me or any other committee member know. (see committee list below or on the website.)

In advance, I thank you for your help and support,
Jeanne

RHoF Emerging Young Scholars Fellowship

Committee Members
Camille Blachowicz
James Baumann
Donna Ogle
Jeanne Paratore
Stuart McNaughton
Sheila Valencia






Jeanne R. Paratore, Ed.D.
Boston University School of Education
Program Director, Literacy and Reading Education
Faculty Director, Language and Literacy Education

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