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== History ==

 

=== Early years (1945–1957) ===

 

 

Other universities and national funders began to recognize the importance of recruiting future college professors. In 1947, [[Carnegie Corporation of New York]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.carnegie.org/|title=Carnegie Corporation of New York|last=York|first=Carnegie Corporation of New|website=Carnegie Corporation of New York|language=en|access-date=2018-05-22}}</ref> provided $100,000 to expand the program to selected universities nationwide. Gradually the program broadened to extend eligibility beyond veterans, in fields other than the humanities. In 1951 the Fellowship program was placed under the administration of the Association of Graduate Schools. In the same year, the first women were granted Woodrow Wilson Fellowships.

 

=== The national Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1957–1974) ===

 

 

Foundation policies stipulated that candidates could not hold both the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and other, similar fellowships for doctoral study. Some candidates, after successfully completing the intensive interviews, declined the Woodrow Wilson Fellowships to accept [[Rhodes Scholarships]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stampsfoundation.org/2016/09/12/rhodes-scholarship/|title=Rhodes Scholarship {{!}} Stamps Family Charitable Foundation|website=www.stampsfoundation.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-22|date=2016-09-12}}</ref> [[National Science Foundation]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/|title=NSF - National Science Foundation|website=www.nsf.gov|language=en|access-date=2018-05-22}}</ref> fellowships, and other such awards. These candidates were allowed designation as honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellows.

As the original large-scale Woodrow Wilson Fellowships came to an end, the Foundation still sought to provide opportunity in higher education for specific groups of students. Following a precedent set by some of the Foundation's earlier supplementary fellowships, the Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies, created in 1974, not only bolstered the growth of feminist scholarship across the humanities and social sciences, but also supported primarily women scholars completing Ph.D.s in these fields at a time when women were significantly underrepresented in doctoral study.

 

 

During the same period, the Foundation also established fellowships in higher education to encourage preparation for specific national high-need fields such as women's health.

 

 

=== Professional development for teachers (1974-present) ===

==Current activities==

 

 

Based on numerous studies indicating that the presence of a well-prepared teacher is the single most important factor in student achievement, the Foundation created the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship to serve as its signature program for the near- to mid-term. The Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship is intended to recruit exceptionally well-qualified individuals into teaching in high-need urban and rural secondary schools, as well as to transform the way in which they are prepared to teach.

The WW Teaching Fellowship was launched in 2007 in two versions.<ref name="NYT">[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/education/20teaching.html "Foundation Hopes to Lure Top Students to Teaching"] (December 20, 2007), ''The New York Times.''</ref> One version funded by the [[Annenberg Foundation]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.annenberg.org/|title=Annenberg Foundation|website=Annenberg Foundation|language=en|access-date=2018-05-22}}</ref> the Leonore Annenberg Teaching Fellowship, was implemented at four selected national universities—[[Stanford University]] and the Universities of [[University of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]], [[University of Virginia|Virginia]], and [[University of Washington|Washington]]—that showcase excellence in teacher preparation. In the other, state-based model, Fellows enroll in an intensive master's-level teacher preparation program at one of a designated group of universities. The universities, in exchange for receiving exceptional teacher candidates and a matching grant, agree to rethink their teacher preparation programs, emphasizing classroom experience from the early phases of the program. A third related program, the Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowship for Aspiring Teachers of Color, was transferred to the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in 2009 by the [[Rockefeller Brothers Fund]]. Fellows across all three programs receive $30,000 stipends and enroll in teacher preparation programs designated by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

==References==

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==External links==

*[http://www.rockarch.org/collections/nonrockorgs/wwilson.php The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Archives]

 

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