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NEW YORK CITY
URBAN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
250 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N. Y. 10007
Telephone: 212-566-6719
JOHN V. LINDSAY
Mayor
Director
SIGMUND G. GINSBURG
Assistant City Administrator
TIMOTHY W. COSTELLO
Deputy Mayor-City Administrator
NEW YORK CITY URBAN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
GENERAL INFORMATION
I. NATIONAL COMPETITION
On February 1, 1969, the City of New York, supported
by a grant of $189,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,
will launch the nation's first Urban Fellowship Frogram.
Under the conditions of the Frogram, the City will
conduct a nation-wide competition to select twenty of the
most highly talented -- and motivated -- young men and women
“from colleges and universities throughout the country to serve
full-time internships for the academic year, commencing in’ Sep-
tember 1969, at the highest levels of the City government.
II. ELIGIBILITY
The competition will be open to all students who have
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completed at least their junior year of college, including
Students receiving the Bachelor's degree in June will be eli-
gible only if they have been accepted at a graduate school and
the graduate school is willing to have them spend the first
year with New York City and in addition will provide a supple-
mentary grant of at least $500.
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graduate students. We.encourage matriculants in all academic
disciplines to apply, not only those in areas of study tradition-
ally associated with government. New York City offers highly
challenging governmental opportunities and responsibilities in,
for example, the fields of anthropology and the fine arts as
well as law and engineering and a hundred others.
The selection process will entail first, Snaopacmant by
your own school, and will be based on fully-detailed applications,
transcripts, personal statements and recommendations, with forty
finalists invited, all expenses paid, for interviews at the Office
of the Mayor at City Hall, New York City. Of these, twenty will
be appointed as New York City's first Urban Fellows.
III. ASSIGNMENTS
Urban Fellows will work closely and directly with heads
of New York City government agencies and with top Mayoral assis-
tants; they will be given commensurate responsibilities in admin-
istrative problem-solving, research, policy planning, and related
management areas. Assignments will be made according to the Fel-
low's field of interest and training, and will be carefully
screened and periodically reviewed to assure continuing chal-
lenge and professional stimulation.
Assignments will range over such fields as city planning,
human rights, housing, recreation and cultural affairs, health
and social services, economic and financial administration, traf-
fice and transportation, police science, public works engineering,
budgeting, purchase and procurement, personnel management, youth
services, municipal radio and television, and innumerable others.
Assignments will also be made within the Offices of the Mayor and
Deputy Mayors.
IV. SEMINARS
In addition to their job assignments, Urban Fellows will
take part in periodic off-the-record seminars with officials within
the City government as well as with leaders of the academic, con-
munications, business, civic and cultural communities of the City.
These meetings will enable the Fellows to assess and compare their
own experiences, to discuss the basic problems and goals of City
policy with the policy-makers themselves, and to profit from the
perspectives of outstanding citizens and professionals outside
the government.
V. ACADEMIC CREDIT - FELLOJ'S REPORT
A basic feature of the program is that each Urban Fellow
will be granted appropriate academic credit by his college or
university, according to its own rules and requirements.
As part of his assignment each Fellow will be asked to
prepare a Report summarizing his year's work. The Fellow's Re-
port should present an evaluation of his job assignment, a review
of his personal experiences, and an appraisal of the Program it-
self. Ideally, the Report should include a Fellow's original and
personal insights and suggestions for ae ee and improvement in a
specific phase of government.
VI. STIFEND
Each of the twenty Urban Fellows selected to participate
in the City's Program will receive a stipend of $3,500 plus round-
trip travel expenses, from funds granted by the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation. In addition, it is expected that each Fellow will re-
ceive a supplementary grant of at least $500 from his own college
or university.
VII. TIMETABLE
All applications (school-~endorsed) must be received by
March 30, 1969. Review of all applications by a Selection Com-
mittee will be concluded by April 15, and immediate notification
made to all unsuccessful applicants. Expense-paid interviews for
forty finalists are scheduled to be held at City Hall, New York
City, the week of April 21, with designation of twenty Urban Fel-
lows completed by April 30, 1969.
VIII. CAREERS IN CITY GOVERNMENT
It is our underlying hope that many Urban Fellows will
find their experience so rewarding that they will decide to
fulfill their professional careérs within the City government.
For our part, it is highly likely that Fellows who prove out-
standingly successful in their one-year assignments could be
appointed to rewarding, challenging positions in the City's
service.
IX. APPLICATION PROCEDURE
To apply, please contact the Office of the President of
your college or university. If your school has not already re-
ceived information from us. by February 15, please have them con-
tact the Director of the Urban Fellowship Program, Office of the
Mayor, 250 Broadway, New York, New York, 10007.
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