How to Apply
Applications for the 2025 FASPE Fellowships are being accepted through January 2, 2025.
FASPE uses an online application system through Submittable. All applications must be submitted through the FASPE Submittable application portal. To ensure that you have the smoothest experience in applying, please be sure to first read through all instructions below carefully.
2025 Program Dates:
Law, Business, and Design and Technology: May 23, 2025 - June 6, 2025
Medical, Clergy & Religious Leaders, and Journalism: June 20, 2025- July 4, 2025
For more information about our six fellowship programs, please see the descriptions under our Fellowships tab.
To confirm your eligibility for a FASPE program, please refer to the program for which you are interested in the Fellowships tab.
Detailed Description of Application Components
1. Online form
The online cover form on Submittable will ask for basic information about you. This will include your contact information, schools you have attended and the names and contact information for those writing letters of recommendation and those serving as references.
2. Resume
Your resume should include your educational and employment history, along with any honors, awards and/or publications.
3. Transcripts
We require transcripts from all institutions of higher education where you spent significant time. (There is no need to send transcripts from a semester abroad or for a single summer course.) You may submit electronic transcripts or scans of hard copy transcripts. Screen shots of online transcripts are not acceptable. Unofficial transcripts are accepted. If you are in your first year of a program and are unable to submit a transcript because your grades are not yet reported, please submit a letter from your dean confirming your enrollment in your degree program, confirming that you are a student in good standing, and, ideally, including a list of the classes you are currently taking. Please note that a school admissions letter or a letter from your registrar that does not include your degree program is not acceptable as proof of enrollment.
4. Short Essay Questions
We require responses to short essay questions. The questions depend on program; and the requested length of each essay is indicated within the questions. Please select the link below that corresponds to the FASPE program to which you are applying, to see the questions and respective word limits
FASPE Business – Short Essay Questions
Download PDF of Business Short Essay Questions
FASPE Clergy – Short Essay Questions
Download PDF of Clergy & Religious Leaders Short Essay Questions
FASPE Design & Technology – Short Essay Questions
Download PDF of Design & Technology Short Essay Questions
FASPE Journalism – Short Essay Questions
Download PDF of Journalism Short Essay Questions
FASPE Law – Short Essay Questions
Download PDF of Law Short Essay Questions
FASPE Medical – Short Essay Questions
Download PDF of Medical Short Essay Questions
5. Letters of Recommendation
Two letters of recommendation from academic faculty are required. For those applying as students, we prefer letters from academic faculty who have taught you in your current or most recent graduate program, although we will also accept letters from faculty from previous graduate education or from your undergraduate career. For early-career professionals or those with significant and relevant professional experience, letters may also come from a supervisor or other employer. All letters of recommendation must come directly from the recommenders and are due January 9, 2025. There will be further information on the Submittable form on how recommenders can send their letters directly to us through Submittable.
If your recommenders seek guidance on what to include in their letters, please convey that we are looking for the following:
- A discussion of any of your academic work and/or work or other experiences that would enrich this program with its focus on contemporary professional ethics;
- Information about how actively you participate in class discussions and/or an assessment of your verbal and written expression;
- Details about how you have reacted in emotionally and intellectually intense classroom exchanges or work experiences;
- Details about your ability to work and travel in small groups;
- An assessment of your potential to be a leader in your field, based on a comparison of your strengths and weaknesses to others who have followed similar paths; and
- Any other information that he/she finds relevant.
Thank you for your interest in FASPE. We look forward to receiving your application.
Please click the button below to go to Submittable and apply:
If you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact:
Rebecca Scott
Director of Programs
+1 646 844 0151
rscott@faspe-ethics.org