Center for Student Research and Scholarly Engagement

Description of career goals / professional aspiration is detailed, feasible, closely connected with a form of public service, and ambitious, with a thoughtful description of the pathway to the career goals. 

Description of career goals/professional aspiration is clear and do-able, connected with some form of public service, with a description of the pathway to the career goals. 

Description of career goals/professional aspiration is moderately clear, with either a connection to some form of public service or a pathway to the goal. 

Description of career goals/professional aspiration is not entirely clear or not connected with some form of public service, and without an indication that the application has a pathway to the goal. 

No description of the applicant’s career goals/professional aspiration. 

Detailed description of the ways in which the Logie Fellowship will support the applicant in achieving their career goals.  

A convincing description of the ways in which the Logie Fellowship will support the applicant in achieving their career goals, with some detail about connections between fellowship and goals.

A description of the ways in which the Logie Fellowship will support the applicant in achieving their career goals but with little detail about specific points of connection. 

A statement of conviction that the Logie Fellowship will help the applicant attain career goals but without an answer to the question prompt “how” this will occur (no detail about the ways in which this will happen).  

No description of the connection between the Logie Fellowship and the applicant’s career goals.  

Compelling, specific, informed description of the community needs/problems the applicant wants to address as they enter public service. 

Thoughtful, somewhat detailed description of the community needs/problems the applicant wants to address as they enter public service. 

Brief but focused description of the community needs/problems the applicant wants to address as they enter public service, with few specific details. 

Brief statement of the community needs/problem the applicant wants to address, without detail or with inaccuracy in the problem statement. 

No description of the community needs/problems the applicant wants to address when they enter public service. 

Detailed, focused statement of the experiences, skills and knowledge the applicant will bring to the City of Grand Rapids in this fellowship, with outline of possible contributions they can make. 

Thoughtful, somewhat detailed statement of the experiences, skills and knowledge the applicant will bring to the City of Grand Rapids in this fellowship. 

Brief but informative overview of the experiences, skills and knowledge the applicant will bring to the City of Grand Rapids in this fellowship.

Brief overview of the applicant’s experiences, skills and knowledge without clear connection to the City of Grand Rapids or to the fellowship opportunity. 

No description of the applicant’s experiences, skills and knowledge that they will bring to the City of Grand Rapids through the fellowship.  

Thoughtful, compelling, reflective, specific description of the abilities and knowledge the applicant hopes to gain through the fellowship. 

Thoughtful, reflective overview of the abilities and knowledge the applicant hopes to gain through the fellowship. 

Brief description of the abilities and knowledge the applicant hopes to gain through the fellowship. 

Brief description of one or two of the things the applicant hopes to gain through the fellowship, but without specifics or clarity about learning goals. 

No description of the abilities and knowledge the applicant hopes to gain through the fellowship.