About

The Ada Louise Huxtable Fellowship in Civic Engagement and Service Learning is a new program at the BAC, generously funded by a grant from OneWorld Boston, a grant-making entity of the Cummings Foundation.


The Huxtable Fellows program has four goals:

1. Mobilize and reward talented, advanced students for work on the BAC's Gateway Projects; 
2. Provide talented, advanced students with an opportunity to connect with other Fellows, students, and mentors across projects and disciplines in Fellows Summits and mentoring activities; 
3. Provide body of work to help the Practice Department and the BAC continue to sharpen its applied learning pedagogies and methods of assessing student learning; 
4. Heighten and insure quality of final deliverables to Gateway clients to strengthen portfolios of students involved in Gateway projects, increase quality of deliverables to Gateway clients, and strengthen the Practice Department's portfolio of work to continue to build Gateway program. 

Fellows will dedicate between 6 and 8 hours to their assigned Gateway project per week, divided between attending weekly team meetings, providing administrative support to their faculty member, and collaborating with the student team on their independent work sessions, additional community outreach, and research. Throughout the semester, they will participate in Fellows Summits, which will include monthly reflective meetings with the Huxtable Faculty Advisor [Marilyn Moedinger, Director of Gateway], and a special lunch with the BAC Overseers. These meetings will give the Fellows chances to connect with each other, and reflect on their own learning and development. In addition to the mentoring roles outlined above, Fellows will assist in the documentation of their project's progress over the semester, including photos, images, interim design sketches and diagrams, etc. Finally, they will play a key role in participating in the evaluation and assessment of the entire project and learning outcomes for themselves as well as the projects that they have served.

Learning Goals
Huxtable Fellows will:

• take leadership roles on projects, mentoring the team regarding with teamwork, professionalism, and time management 
• learn and hone management skills, as they help manage other students, workflow, deadlines, and client interaction 
• understand the value of, and effective strategies for, community engagement 
• learn and hone their collaboration and cooperation skills 
• generate work for their own professional/academic portfolios 
• understand the value of, and engage in, mentoring and collegiality with the other Fellows, the Practice Department, and a select group of professional Mentors.