Program Overview

Principal's Global Scholars and Fellows Program

The Principal's Global Scholars and Fellows Program is a university-wide initiative to increase academic and research activity between Queen's faculty members, students, and post-doctoral fellows in Queen's four priority geographies (Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, Southeast Asia). It also supports faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and students displaced by war, conflict, and political instability.

Program Structure

The program is comprised of two streams:

• Stream 1: Principal's Global Scholars
  • Provides forcibly displaced students and those who hold precarious immigration status with an admissions pathway and funding to complete their degree at Queen's.
• Stream 2: Principal's Global Fellows
  • Provides funding to increase academic and research activity between Queen's faculty members in the four priority geographies identified in Queen's Global Engagement Strategic Plan. It also supports faculty and post-doctoral fellows displaced by war, conflict, and political instability.

Principal's Global Scholars

Undergraduate Students

The Principal's Global Scholars at the undergraduate level will be identified through Queen's long-standing partnership with the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) Student Refugee Program. This program provides resettlement in Canada and access to post-secondary education to refugees in selected countries of asylum.

Graduate Students

The Principal's Global Scholars Award for Graduate Students supports newly admitted students who have experienced forced migration within the past five years in eligible, full-time research-based graduate degree programs and the Smith MBA program. This is a two-year pilot program. Five awards will be made annually:

• One $25,000 (one-time) award for the Smith MBA program
• Four $10,000 awards (one-time) for students in all other eligible programs

Principal's Global Fellows

Principal's Global Fellows Fund

The Fund provides up to C$10,000 for Queen's faculty members and their counterparts in the four priority regions identified in the Queen's Global Engagement Strategic Plan (Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, and Southeast Asia) to collaborate for the purposes of advancing an academic, research, student learning, or scholarly initiative. Faculty members from the partner university will be designated Principal's Global Fellows. Priority will be given to collaborations with Queen's strategic partner institutions.

Scholars at Risk

Support for displaced faculty members is provided through Queen's existing partnerships with Scholars at Risk, the Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund and Artist Protection Fund, the New University in Exile Consortium, and other international and national organizations. Support is provided for one academic year, with the possibility of renewal.