Sharpe Community Scholars

Sharpe Action Research Internship Summer Funding

Sharpe Scholars are eligible to apply for action research summer funding. This grant provides students with a $4000 stipend to complete a faculty-mentored research project or $5000 to engage community-based research in an internship with a community partner.

Information about the summer research grant application process can be found here. 

Our Living-Learning Community Values

• We are committed to student development and academic rigor through our first-year experience —the Sharpe Living-Learning Community in Cedar Hall.
• We build students’ capacity to conduct ethical and responsive, participatory action research –through course work and training in mixed methodologies for working with and within communities.  
• We believe that knowledge is embodied in the everyday experiences of all human beings in many forms of community, and that the residents of our local neighborhoods and surrounding communities continually produce knowledge that is central to our research activity.
• We uphold local knowledge as essential in the formation of the participatory action research process and the direction that it takes.
• We value self-reflection that cultivates awareness of ourselves as scholars who are members of the local community and not set apart from it.