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The Gaudino Board supports students wishing to pursue Winter Study projects that involve uncomfortable learning.
The Board provides financial support to a Winter Study course that asks students to structure their individual projects into three components: academic rigor; direct encounter with otherness; and self-reflection. All students whose projects are approved will receive the Gaudino Fellow designation.
The Scholar and Board support individual projects that develop the "habits of mind" of applying conceptual thinking and intellectual analysis to a challenging experience and also that encourage students to confront their own personal belief, value or view regarding the subject.

MATH 23 Gaudino Winter Study Fellows Program

The Gaudino Winter Study Fellow designation is available to up to fifteen students who create their own independent projects that involve critical, reflective, and experiential learning during Winter Study. Each student works independently under the direction of a faculty sponsor, who will help shape and monitor the project. The project must receive approval from the Winter Study Committee, as well as from the Gaudino Scholar and Gaudino Board of Trustees. The Gaudino Board is looking for projects that address specific intellectual problems through direct experience, undertaken preferably in a social milieu that is previously unfamiliar or even uncomfortable to the applicant. Projects must be academically rigorous and worked out carefully with faculty sponsors. Projects should also entail systematic self-reflection on how the experiences affect students personally, and students will be asked to discuss their project with the Gaudino Board after it is completed. The Gaudino Scholar will meet with students as a group before and after Winter Study. All students whose projects are approved will receive the Gaudino Fellow designation. In addition, students on Financial Aid will receive Gaudino funding from a minimum of 50% to a maximum of 90% of the budget for the project up to $2,500, as determined by the Financial Aid office. No additional funding for students’ projects will be provided by the College. Only students on financial aid will receive funding for their project. Students selecting this course will register for MATH 23.

Requirements

Selected students are expected to meet as a group with the Gaudino Scholar at least once before and once after the January term. Students will also meet with the Board on campus in April to review their projects from the Gaudino perspective. In preparation for this discussion, students are expected to submit a brief written summary (no more than two pages) of their January experience. These requirements are in addition to any other expectations by the student's individual faculty sponsor and the Winter Study Committee.