Program:
The John Jay Institute Fellowship
- Budget:
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$768,000
- Category:
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Education
- Population Served:
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Adults
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Young Adults (20-25 years) -- currently not in use
Program Description:
Program Description
The John Jay Institute believes that leaders are
made, not born. Consequently, its Fellowship Program is designed to
inspire men and women with a Christian vision for society and to equip
them with the spiritual, intellectual, and professional disciplines
necessary for effective faith-informed public service. The Fellowship
begins with an intensive semester-long academic residency in Philadelphia, PA. A semester-long "externship" follows the
residency with field placement in a national or international
governmental agency or non-governmental organization. Externships are
tailored to each fellow's vocational interests. Placements vary widely
and have included the U.S. Congress, Heritage Foundation, Ethics and
Public Policy Center, Institute on Religion and Democracy, International
Justice Mission, Opportunity International, and CARE in London,
England.
Upon successful completion of the academic residency and externship,
the Fellowship Program offers life-long membership in a professional
fraternity that includes graduate school and job placement assistance,
mentoring, career coaching, networking, and continuing education
opportunities. Like similar prestigious postgraduate programs, the
Institute's Fellowship is merit-based and offers a competitive stipend
and housing benefit for its academic residency and externship.
Academic Residency
In order to develop leaders with the spiritual, intellectual, and
professional fortitude for faith-informed public service, the
Fellowship's academic residency consists of a core curriculum of
interdisciplinary studies in theology, philosophy, ethics, history,
politics, and jurisprudence. The Institute uses a "block course" system
with 3-week long sequential courses that build upon one another. Thus,
students are able to focus their attention on one course at a time.
Classes are conducted Monday through Thursday in the Socratic teaching
method. Each class day is framed by morning and evening chapel services
that encourage common prayer, Scripture meditation, spiritual
reflection, and service. Fridays are typically reserved for field
studies and other co-curricular activities relating to leadership
development.
Program Long-Term Success:
By the year 2035, we envisage 1,200 leaders in a fraternal organization serving in public life for the renewal of American culture.
Objective/Goal
To impart an animating Christian social vision for common life and well-being
- The fellow will comprehend the unbounded Lordship of Jesus Christ over all of creation.
- The fellow will examine his/her calling in light of Christ’s sovereignty over the public square.
- The fellow will respond to the cultural moment with integrated confession of the Christian civic mandate.
- The fellow will persevere in the face of adversity in the hope and confidence that the incarnate, crucified, risen, and ascended Lord of creation will return to assert his dominion.
To present a model of the fullness of human life in family and community
- The fellow will esteem others more highly than himself/herself.
- The fellow will pursue his/her calling and aspirations in relationship with each other.
- The fellow will honor the body of believers in Christ and affirm the principle of “Unity in essentials, diversity in non-essentials, and charity in all things.”
- The fellow will affirm with the Creator the goodness of his Creation and celebrate its fruits.
- The fellow will demonstrate the beauty of virtuous relationships before a watching world.
- The fellow will revere the institutions of marriage and family as ordained of God and integral to social orderand human felicity.
To bring the Christian intellectual and moral tradition to bear on the body politic through concerted action.
- The fellow will impart to others a passion for an ever increasing knowledge of the Permanent Things. The fellow will draw purpose and inspiration from stories of the “happy few” who achieved noble ends in their times.
- The fellow will aspire to professional excellence and influence in public station.
- The fellow will conspire with others to achieve the transformation of the church and commonwealth.
- The fellow will argue persuasively in the public square on behalf of the transcendent truth of the Christian tradition.
Program Short-Term Success:
At the end of 2011 the Institute will have "commissioned" 75 Fellows through the program and they have served in over two dozen different public leadership organizations around the globe, including: Heritage Foundation, Hudson Institute, Foreign Policy Research Center, Maxim Institute, CARE UK, Opportunity International, Family Research Council, Ethics and Public Policy Center, U.S. Congress, U.S. State Department, Texas Attorney General and many more.
Program Success Monitored by:
Ongoing communication with the Fellows through the alumni program, "The Society of St. George," maintains both formal and informal accountability with the Fellow, the alumni and their supervisors.
Additionally, various evaluation tools, assessments and exit interviews are used to measure the success of the residency portion and the educational curriculum.
Program Success Examples:
Our early success stories include:
- More than 4000 people have attended John Jay
Institute educational events
- John Jay Fellows have served at the Heritage
Foundation, Hudson Institute, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Maxim Institute,
Family Research Council and dozens more policy organizations
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John Jay Fellows have served in the office of
the Texas attorney general, Congressman Eric Cantor, Congressman Doug Lamborn, Congressman
Mike McIntyre, Senator Sam Brownback, Senator Rick Santorum
- John Jay Fellows are completing PhD programs at Georgetown University, Cal-Tech; law school at the University of North Carolina, University
of Houston, University of Mississippi; graduate programs at Johns Hopkins
University, Westminster Seminary, Claremont University, Lee University