The Clement A. Price Humanities Scholars Program is a pathway for diverse students to earn undergraduate degrees in humanities disciplines, paving the way to graduate school and academic careers. Named for the late Clement A. Price, a distinguished professor at Rutgers-Newark who was a pioneer in helping diversify the university’s own faculty, the Price Humanities Scholars Program will employ a multi-layered approach including undergraduate research, publicly engaged scholarship, innovative courses, visiting scholars, mentoring, and professional development opportunities to support HLLC scholars on the pathway to graduate school in the humanities and onto careers in related fields.
The HLLC is an intergenerational residential Honors community. HLLC challenges and redefines the notion of “merit” to cultivate the untapped talent of increasingly diverse new generations, providing students with the resources and opportunities to be thought leaders within their fields, positive collaborators within their communities, and change agents in our world, and activating intergenerational and interdisciplinary learning through dynamic curricula, to tackle local and global social issues in and outside of the classroom.
As part of the HLLC program, Price Scholars will complete a specialized 18-credit curriculum constituting an academic minor. Price Scholars will take their first three courses in the program as part of the full HLLC cohort. Following that, they will take several elective courses in the humanities and a humanities research methods course before then embarking on guided research projects in the humanities, culminating in a capstone course research project, with close mentoring by faculty, staff, and professionals.
Benefits of being an HLLC Price Scholar:
- Residential scholarship (renewable for 2 years/4 semesters)
- Generous financial aid packaging that optimizes eligibility for scholarships for tuition and fees
- Individualized mentoring and support for students with an interest in pursuing graduate school and careers in the Humanities (Professoriate, Cultural Arts Institutions, Educational Institutions, etc.)
- Funded undergraduate research, internship, and career opportunities; opportunities to present at national and global conferences
- Innovative curriculum and individualized exposure to visiting scholars
- Free GRE preparation and support with graduate school applications
Eligibility:
The first cohort of Price Scholars will be selected for fall 2019 from among incoming transfer students admitted to the HLLC and current HLLC sophomores who are interested in humanities careers.
- Transfer students with an Associate degree from a NJ community college
- Interested in graduate school or career in the Humanities or related field (Including, but not limited to, Educators, Writing, Literature, English, History, American Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Africana Studies, Languages, Public Arts, etc.)
- Interested in residing on campus
- Admitted in the HLLC program (2 round interview process)
How To Apply:
Transfer Deadline: February 11, 2019
Complete the Rutgers admission application, select the HLLC option, and following submission of the application, an invitation to the HLLC interview process will be sent.