Saving the World in Five Hundred Words

Suzanne McCray is vice provost for enrollment services and dean of admissions and nationally competitive awards as well as an associate professor in higher education in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas.Craig Filar is associate dean of Honors, Scholars, and Fellows in the Division of Undergraduate Studies at Florida State University.Kyle Mox is the associate dean for national scholarships at Arizona State University. His office provides advising resources to the largest student body in the US.

• Part I: Preparing Students 1. Saving the World in Five Hundred Words or Less: The Truman Scholarship Policy ProposalTara Yglesias 2. Major Awards Interview Preparation: Campus StrategiesLucy Morrison and Gwen Volmar 3. What Did I Do Wrong? Counseling the Unsuccessful Fellowship ApplicantGregory A. Llacer Part II: Increasing Access4. Community College and Transfer Student Access to Nationally Competitive AwardsCassidy Alvarado 5. Exploring Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Issues for Scholarship Offices: A Personal JourneyKaren Weber 6. Connecting and Supporting Historically Marginalized Students: Access, Opportunity, and EmpowermentElizabeth Rotolo 7. Toward an Antiracist Fellowships Advising ModelKurt Davies Part III: Developing the Profession8. Zero Searches Found. Try Again? The Journey of a Fellowships Research CollectiveCatherine Salgado 9. Beyond the Pandemic: Harnessing Insights from Bichronous Online Teaching to Inform Fellowships AdvisingRichelle Bernazzoli and Meredith Raucher Sisson 10. Fellowships in Support of Graduate ProfessionalizationMatthew Klopfenstein