McGrath Graduate Fellowship Program
Become a McGrath Graduate Fellow
2025-26 Cohort 5 Interest List
Program Overview
The McGrath Graduate Fellowship Program will allow participants to engage and grapple with a diversity of experiences and questions that challenge humanity and the earth we live on. Topics including gender, education, sustainability, pandemics, connectivity/technology access, equity, and inclusion will provide a framework for USF graduate students to explore, investigate, and develop skills and new ways of thinking toward the future. An experiential Summer international immersion component will serve as the foundational experience of the program.
Read about the 2023 immersion to Cambodia via the Jesuit Network
Read about the 2023 immersion to Cambodia via USF News
For questions, contact us at changeinstitute@usfca.edu
Program Learning outcomes:
Objectives of the program are to provide graduate students an opportunity to:
- Develop and nurture a sense of reflection and contemplation to assist in a deeper understanding of human reality.
- Engage with the pressing questions facing humanity and our planet.
- Develop their inclusive leadership skills and their abilities to integrate differences.
- Refine their abilities to synthesize complex ideas and divergent viewpoints.
- Encourage innovation and nurture creative problem-solving skills.
- Enhance their adaptability and nimbleness and their capacities to navigate ambiguity, uncertainty, and unfamiliar circumstances.
- Distinguish themselves in a crowded marketplace of graduate students seeking employment opportunities.
2025-26 Program Outline
- Cohort Meet & Greet | Mid–Apr. (date/time dependent on cohort availability)
- Change Institute Celebration | Monday, May 5, 7–8:30 p.m. in Xavier Auditorium, Fromm Hall
- Cohort Onboarding | May 2025
- Pre-Immersion Summer Sessions | Jun. & Jul. (date/time dependent on cohort availability)
- Summer International Immersion to Cambodia | Friday, Jul. 26–Friday, Aug. 9
- Cohort Meetings | 2 hours spaces during the academic semester
2025-26 Eligibility & Requirements:
- Must be a full–time graduate student through May 2026
- Must be able to travel internationally to Cambodia and Thailand
- Must maintain good academic and judicial standing
- Must attend all in-person/hybrid events
- USF Staff/Faculty are not eligible for this program
2025-26 Fellow Recruitment TimelinE
- Applications Open | TBD
- Applications Due | TBD
- Interview Offers | TBD
- Virtual Interview Period | TBD
- Fellowship Offers | TBD