2025-2026 Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship Program Nomination Form

Thank you for your interest in nominating a Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellow to represent your campus during the 2025-2026 program year!

Now entering its fourth year, the TMACF is our network's flagship student-centered program and offers dedicated young leaders in our region the opportunity to develop new knowledge, understanding, skills, and experiences that complement their curricular and community-engaged activities. Previous TMA Civic Fellows have gone on to pursue careers in the public service, governmental, and non-profit sectors or have decided to continue their education. The 2025-2026 cohort of fellows will join a vibrant and growing network of program alumni representing the diversity of our region's communities and campuses, including those who have attended and graduated from 2-year, 4-year, public, private, HBCU, and minority-serving institutions. 

The form below can be saved and returned to later. To view the information that will be required in this nomination, please return to the Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship webpage and click on the nomination form preview document. Please note that each campus president is permitted to submit a nomination for just one student to represent their campus in the program. The deadline to submit nominations is Friday, February 28, 2025 by the close of business. Please contact TMA Associate Director Anthony Wagner with any questions at wagner@transformmidatlantic.org. 

**If all materials necessary for submitting a nomination are gathered, we anticipate that completion of this form will take no more than 10 minutes. 

President's Nomination Letter
Please upload a letter of nomination written and signed by the president of the nominating institution on official institutional letterhead. The letter should briefly describe the president’s rationale for nominating the selected student to serve as a 2025-2026 Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellow. TMA encourages presidents to include information about the nominee's:

• academic achievements (including any community-engaged research, coursework, and/or scholarship); 
• co- or extra-curricular contributions (including leadership experiences and community-engaged volunteer service and contributions);
• dedication to and record of creating a campus and community culture of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion;
• propensity and potential to create positive social change on campus or in the community. 

Please include specific examples of the student’s participation and leadership in service-learning and civic and community engagement programs and initiatives, including but not limited to contributions made through their involvement with student government, partnerships with community-based organizations, global study initiatives, and student advocacy efforts.

We invite you, also, to briefly describe evidence of the nominee’s intellectual and cultural humility – or their propensity for using active-listening to develop knowledge and understanding before taking action to address challenges on campus and in the community.

Please include information about how participation in this collaborative regional Civic Fellowship would benefit your institution’s nominee and, ultimately, your campus.

NOMINEE NARRATIVE
Please provide a statement (no more than 1,000 words, 12-point font, Times New Roman, Single-spaced) written by the nominated student that answers the narrative questions below. The nominee's profile should be submitted as a PDF document. Please note that the nominee's responses may be shared publically via their profile page on the TMA website. The nominee's name, institution, & class year and degree/major should be included at the top of the first page of the document, centered and in bold text, as below: 

FirstName LastName
Example University
Class of 2027, BA, Political Science and Sociology Major
[Space]

Begin profile question responses here... 

NARRATIVE QUESTIONS: 

1) Leadership: When you think about the term "leadership," what qualities or skills do you find to be most important? How have you embraced these qualities and/or skills in your own academic and civic/community engagement?

2) Sustainability & Problem Solving: Describe a key, complex problem on your campus or in your community. How have you already or might you in the future use your voice, skills, and competencies to tackle this problem in a sustainable way? Note: We encourage you to think about sustainability as it has been defined by the United Nations as "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

3) Skill Development: What skills related to leadership, civic and community engagement, and/or sustainable change-making do you hope to develop in the year to come? How are these skills related to your long-term goals and objectives? 

4) Commitment to Participation: Do you agree and fully commit to participating in all activities of the fellowship year - including the completion of a capstone project? This includes monthly 90-minute fellowship guest speaker sessions, quarterly hour-long advisory group meetings, regular hour-long small peer group meetings, and an end-of-year in-person retreat? Note: At this time, TMA anticipates that most sessions will occur in the evening hours to avoid significant conflicts with students' academic schedules. (Simply respond "Yes" or "No," adding any details you think are important.)