Summer Fellowships should be a student’s primary summer activity. Summer Fellows are prohibited from registering for summer courses, and may not have concurrent jobs that exceed 10 total hours per week. Priority will be given to in-person, on-site experiences, and Summer Fellowships must begin after Memorial Day and conclude before Labor Day.

Advising Notes

1. Individual programs may set different expectations for time spent engaged in the SPRINT experience (start and end dates, hours spent, remote vs in person engagement).
2. It is recommended that a SPRINT experience is full-time and lasts a minimum of 6-10 weeks, unless otherwise specified by the individual program.
3. Students should confirm with their faculty/host organization what the expectations are for their summer experience, and their availability to meet those expectations: finalize length of experience/location/engagement hours before accepting an experience.
4. It is encouraged that all students who need to make up credits over a break discuss a degree completion and credit recovery plan with your academic advisor or academic dean if you are taking a SPRINT opportunity.

Semester Fellowships are significant co-curricular commitments. Semester Fellows are prohibited from registering for 5 course credits, and may not have concurrent jobs that exceed 10 total hours per week. Priority will be given to in-person, on-site experiences, and Semester Fellowships must begin after the first day of classes and conclude before the start of the final examination period.

Advising Notes

1.  SPRINT participation must fit into a student’s schedule alongside classes and other campus activities. Students should be mindful of the need to set aside time to fully participate in their semester SPRINT experience, which may necessitate difficult decisions about what other experiences are advisable. Four courses per semester is the expected normal load, even for juniors and seniors. 
2. Students, after full use of the advising network, should determine how a SPRINT semester experience might impact their curricular and extracurricular activities. 

Students who intentionally fail to engage in their fellowships or fail to adhere to the expectations described here may have award funds rescinded, including Summer Earnings Waivers, and may be ineligible for future SPRINT Fellowships.

Advising Notes

1. Rescinding a SPRINT award may mean that a student needs to return all or part of the SPRINT award funding they have received including their Summer Earnings Waiver.
2.  If you are having difficulty with your experiential learning site, reach out to your SPRINT program manager to see if they can support, provide mediation, or help you engage differently with your organization.

The funding provided is intended to support student expenses during the Fellowship experience. During the semester, these awards help to defray student contributions to their cost-of-attendance, and during the summer, these funds help to defray cost-of-living expenses such as housing, food, and transportation costs.

Advising Notes

1. Note that SPRINT funding may not be enough to cover every expense for the summer experience and might require resourcefulness and careful planning. Please meet with an advisor in the College or Career Center if you have concerns or questions about developing a budget that will enable you to engage in a SPRINT experience.
2.  Students staying in Providence for the summer can access supplements that reduce the cost of on-campus housing and meals.
3. High Cost of Living (HCOL) support is available for aided students in all international, in-person SPRINT experiences, and defined cities for domestic in-person experiences.

Students may not have multiple simultaneous fellowships or receive fellowship funding from other sources at Brown, nor may host organizations and faculty supervisors provide supplemental funding to Fellows. Hosts who seek to provide additional support may provide supplemental direct support for housing, food, and transportation (such as discounted housing, meal swipes, and transportation cards). 

Advising Notes: 

1. Consider discussing with your external host organization any support that does not involve direct compensation (housing benefits, transportation costs, meal passes). 
2. Students may need to make a decision before hearing back from other experiences, it is important to commit to the summer experience that best supports your goals for the summer and not walk away from experiences you have agreed to participate in if a different opportunity arises.

Since the funding for fellowships is finite, students who previously received a SPRINT award remain eligible to apply to SPRINT Fellowships, but priority will be given to students who have not previously received SPRINT summer awards. 

Advising Notes: 

 Because new applicants will be prioritized in the selection process, students should meet with a career counselor to discuss a roadmap for their internship or research engagement while at Brown. 

In order to support students’ learning as well as their personal and professional development, Fellowship supervisors should provide regular oversight, mentorship, feedback, and evaluation throughout the term of the fellowship. 

Advising Notes

1. Mentorship and supervision can be provided by a team of people including faculty, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. While graduate students may participate in mentoring activities, the faculty member is responsible for active supervision of the SPRINT student. 
2. When interviewing with a SPRINT partner or seeking out your own summer experience, it is important to outline your expectations of a supervisor for the summer. Make sure to ask about weekly meetings, expectations of the organization, and outline what the feedback process looks like.

Fellowships must be consistent with Brown’s Conflict of Interest and Commitment Policy. For example, neither family members nor other students may serve as Fellowship supervisors. 

Advising Notes

1. Students may choose to pursue a variety of experiential learning opportunities, but certain types of opportunities will be ineligible for Fellowships based on the type of sponsoring organization (such as fee-based internship programs), the focus of the summer experience, and compliance with federal, state, and local laws.
2. Educational programs (Internships or projects) for Brown or other university credit, programs with fees to participate, and internship placement programs coordinated through third-party vendors are not eligible for SPRINT experience funding.
3. Camp counselor positions, tutoring positions, non-credit courses, observing/shadowing, lectures, and training programs are not eligible for SPRINT experience funding.
4.  Experiences with a Brown student club, organization, or class or experiences that are a continuation of work done with a Brown club or organization during the academic year are not eligible for SPRINT experience funding.
5. Projects with an organization involved with the use, production, testing, or distribution of recreational or medical marijuana are not eligible for SPRINT experience funding. As the use of marijuana is illegal at the federal level and Brown University receives federal funds, we must comply with federal law.
6.  Experiences with organizations and programs that expect their interns to engage in fundraising through street solicitations or call centers are not eligible for SPRINT experience funding.
7.  Experiences with political campaigns are not eligible for SPRINT experience funding.

 Fellowships outside of Rhode Island must observe Brown’s Travel Policy, and students must submit a completed TravelSafe application before receiving their fellowship funding.

Advising Notes

1. Students working remotely but residing in the state of Rhode Island for their SPRINT experience need not complete a TravelSafe application. 
2. Students should consider all elements of international experiential learning including work visas, permits, contracts, current events, health and safety.
3. Students traveling internationally for their SPRINT experience AND spending time in a High-Risk location must submit a Safety Plan as part of their Travel Safe application. The Safety Plan will need to be reviewed and approved by Brown’s Global Travel Risk Assessment Committee (GTRAC) before a student receives final approval for their SPRINT experience.  If a Safety Plan is not approved, the student will not be eligible to receive funding for their SPRINT experience.
4. If you are curious about the Risk Level of your potential SPRINT experience please visit the U.S Travel Advisories website. For questions please contact your SPRINT Program Manager.