The Viewpoints Fellowship

Problem: Existing efforts often fail to reach those who don’t already care about dialogue — leaving many students unprepared to navigate conflict or ideological difference.

Solution: A peer-led, year-long fellowship empowering club leaders to use curious disagreement to achieve club and campus goals.

About the Fellowship

September: A 3-day, in-person, peer-led retreat for college student club leaders, focused on building skills for curious disagreement.

Fall: The opportunity to build a program introducing curious disagreement to your club as a framework to address shared goals.
Spring: The chance to work as a group to create a high-impact campus capstone project.
A national network and ongoing training, through bi-weekly cohort meetings with students from different schools.
LinkedIn certification in Curious Disagreement to boost resume.
Need-based stipend.
Possibility for club funding.
Current partners include Dartmouth, Carnegie Mellon, Brigham Young University, University of Delaware, Elon University, and University of St. Thomas

How to Bring the Fellowship to Your Campus

Campuses partner with the Viewpoints Project to bring the fellowship to their students. Typically, Viewpoints works with a center for student engagement, the Dean of Students’ Office, a civics center, or a similar campus entity.

This deck includes all the information you need to learn about partnering, or pitch the fellowship to your campus.

Short on time? We’ve prepared a one-pager as well.

To begin a conversation about partnership, email info@viewpointsproject.org.

What Makes Us Unique?

We did the landscape analysis for you! Learn more about what unique needs our fellowship fills, and how our program may complement existing ones on your campus

By training organizational leaders and empowering them to run programming that both deploys curious disagreement and achieves club goals, our programming is able to reach different populations without feeling forced.
TVF is designed and led by students, for students, using a peer mentorship and train-the-trainer model to make the material feel relevant and exciting.
TVF partners with campuses to ensure institutional memory, invites alumni back as mentors for future years, and provides year-long programming and an alumni network to sustain the impact.
Our fellowship is designed to be unique and complementary - we fit seamlessly onto campuses, whether schools have a robust program around dialogue, or are just getting started.