Submit a Reference for the Oak Fellowship
The 2012 Reference Deadline has now past.
By early September: Online application submission is available
November 1, 2011: Nomination deadline
January 1, 2012: Application deadline
December 2011 – January 2012: Review of applications and research on candidates
February 2012: Selection committee meetings to select final candidates
Late February – Early March 2012: Phone interviews with finalists
March 2012: Decision notification to all applicants
If you would like to submit a reference online for an Oak Fellowship applicant, please click here.
The Oak Institute, based in Maine, is pleased to issue a call for nominations for the 2012 Oak Human Rights Fellowship. We seek a frontline human rights activist who works on problems faced by children and youth. The activist will come from outside the United States, and will take up residence at Colby College in the fall of 2012.
In this call, we highlight our concern about the most vulnerable among us – children and youth. Our next Oak Fellow will work to protect the human rights of emerging generations. Such rights include but are not limited to: the right of young people to the most basic human needs such as shelter and nutrition; access to healthcare and medical attention for children and pregnant women; access to education; enforcement of fair child labor standards; protection from youth and/or gang violence; efforts to curb or stop the recruitment of child soldiers; special care for orphans and refugee children; protection against sexual exploitation of minors; enforcement of fair juvenile justice laws and standards.
We especially encourage applications from those who are currently or were recently involved in on-the-ground work at some level of personal risk and are in need of respite.