Admissions
Your application to the Graduate School is a four-step process. The Admissions Committee first examines your completed application form. If you successfully meet the criteria for admission, you have passed phase one of the process. Future Generations then informs you if any further information is needed. At this point, we are also likely to interview you over the telephone or in person. We generally interview one or more members of the community where you intend to apply your learning and research. In all instances, applicants must have an active base within a community. You must be endorsed by this community to participate in this academic program. If community involvement and support are evident, you have passed phase two of the application.
Phase three is the Scholarship Committee’s decision based on its review of your financial disclosure. If financial assistance is needed and requested, Future Generations will work closely with you and your community to ensure that your merit and need match available resources for this program of applied graduate studies. Finally, phase four includes a signed agreement between you and Future Generations to the terms for delivering and covering the costs of this applied graduate education.
Provisional Acceptance
The Admissions Committee looks for candidates who are teachers of social change, nature conservation, and moral agency. Many of these people will
have come to show these leadership gifts in the context of communities traumatized by conflict. The Admissions Committee looks for unusual circumstances in background or training that augment one’s ability to complete the program. Provisional acceptance may be considered in special cases.
Health Caveat
Applicants must take into consideration the physical requirements of the residential study portion of this program. Students trek and conduct field research at high altitudes in the Andes and Himalayas. They live in simple village conditions without indoor plumbing. There may be irregular access to electricity. We adapt to the existing diets of the communities we visit.
