What: The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) and the Advisory Committee of the Phillip D. Peters Regional Planning Fellowship Program offer this annual fellowship. As one of the only fellowships of its kind across the country, the Peters Fellowship provides a graduate student with a paid work and enrichment experience at a major regional planning agency in one of the nation's largest metropolitan areas.
The fellowship was established in 1999 to honor the late Phil Peters, the former Executive Director of the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (NIPC)*. Phil retired in 1999 after completing more than thirty years of extraordinary service to NIPC, during which time he played a major role in the development and implementation of the agency's innovative, comprehensive, and highly-regarded planning program for the Chicago metropolitan area. The fellowship reflects Phil's dedication to NIPC and his personal interest in promoting careers in regional planning.
The fellowship is awarded each year to a qualified Master's degree graduate student in urban and regional planning or a related field. The objective is to open the fellowship to a broad range of applicants representative of the full scope of regional planning. A 400 hour work experience at CMAP is provided under the guidance and mentoring of a senior staff member. The fellowship is scheduled for a mutually convenient, consecutive period between May and December of each year, with the fellow compensated at the rate of $20.00 per hour.
Selection is based upon a combination of educational attainment, relationship of past coursework and employment to the current work and needs of CMAP, and an indication of a career interest in regional planning. Priority is given to those students who are midway through their graduate program.
Fellowship projects may include work in any of the following areas of planning: land use, transportation, environment and natural resources, housing, and/or economic development, and involve local planning, community engagement, policy analysis, communications, and/or data research and analysis. Many past Peters Fellows have worked on projects within CMAP's Local Technical Assistance (LTA) program or on development of the comprehensive regional plan. Every effort is made to match up the education and interest of the fellow with the agency's work program activities, including participation in networking and enrichment opportunities.
ELIGIBILITY Enrollment in a Master’s degree graduate program in urban and regional planning; public policy and administration; environmental science, planning or engineering or a related field. Priority will be given to those students midway through their graduate program.Interest in a career in regional planning Recommendation by a faculty member in the students Master’s degree graduate program
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Please submit all of the following items as part of your application:
- A letter of application (not to exceed 2 pages) which will contain the following information:
- Your address, telephone number and email address during the school year
- The time period for which you would be available to perform the fellowship duties between May and December of 2020
- A background statement specifying the university and Master’s degree program in which you are enrolled, the number of semesters you have completed in the program and expected graduation date, grade point average, academic and other awards, and community and other extracurricular activities;
- A statement describing why you are interested in applying for the fellowship, along with any specific aspects of regional planning which interest you.
- One letter of recommendation from a faculty member in your Master’s degree graduate program.
- A resume, curriculum vitae or other description of your education and professional experience.
- An official transcript(s)of courses with a confirmation of your grade point average.
Yesenia Ambriz
CMAP
233 South Wacker Drive Suite 800
Chicago, IL 60606
Or emailed to yambriz@cmap.illinois.gov
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