Become an ISP Policy Scholar
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Open to graduate and undergraduate social work students.

ISP Policy Scholars is a national program for students who want to do more than study policy. You will practice it under the guidance of a policy mentor. Over one cycle, you will build skill across six core competencies and finish by being formally installed as an ISP Policy Scholar.

What Scholars Get
  • Installation as an ISP Policy Scholar
You are formally installed as an ISP Policy Scholar, a national designation that goes on your resume, your graduate or post-graduate school applications, and your professional profile.   
  • Mentorship from People Doing the Work
Direct access to practitioners and ISP leaders who spend their careers moving policy.   
  • A National Network
A cohort of students across the country working on the same questions you are, connected to the wider ISP membership behind them.   

What You Will Learn to Do
  • Translate and disseminate: Turn research into something a decision-maker will actually read.   
  • Apply a racial equity and anti-oppression lens: Read any policy for who it serves and who it leaves out.   
  • Advocate and organize: Move an issue from a concern into a campaign.   
  • Build political efficacy: Act with well-founded confidence that your voice counts.   
  • Engage in electoral activism: Connect elections to the outcomes you care about.   
  • Engage legislatively: Approach lawmakers on their terms, and be heard.   The fully virtual program lasts an academic year and will require approximately 2-4 hours a month. 
The fully virtual program lasts an academic year and will require approximately 2-4 hours a month. More details about the program can be found here.  

Not Sure Yet? Start Here

Come to an information session before you apply. 45 minutes, all your questions answered, no commitment. The same session is offered twice so you can pick the one that fits your schedule:

Monday, August 18 at 5:30 p.m. PT (7:30 p.m. CT)
Monday, August 25 at 5:30 p.m. CT (3:30 p.m. PT)
Register for the information session here.

Key Dates
Applications open: August 3
Information sessions: August 18 and August 25
Application deadline: September 10
Decisions announced: September 24
Required orientation: September 30 / October 1
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