The Woodrow Wilson Ohio Teaching Fellowship program seeks to recruit and prepare accomplished professionals and students as teachers in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Applications are now available online (www.wwteachingfellowship.org) for the Woodrow Wilson Ohio Teaching Fellowship program, which was created to prepare more STEM teachers and place them in some of Ohio’s most-challenged public schools. Fellowships are open to high-achievers who have a bachelor’s degree in mathematics or science, including those who already work in a STEM field and want to try their hand at teaching. Fellows receive a $30,000 stipend and complete an intensive, one-year school-based master’s degree in education. They then agree to work in a high-need Ohio school district for three years.

The Ohio State University is one of seven universities chosen to participate in the Fellowship program. Others include John Carroll University in Cleveland and Ohio University as well as the Universities of Akron, Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo. Each institution will train 15 Fellows.

Fellows graduating from Ohio State’s Fellowship program will take their expertise to high-need school districts in the hopes of inspiring urban and low-income students to take a science- or math-based career path. For more information on Ohio State’s program, visit go.osu.edu/wilson.

Those chosen for Ohio State’s first class of Fellows will begin their master’s programs in summer 2012.

The Fellowship is made possible with federal Race to the Top funds as well as Choose Ohio First scholarship funds, the state’s premier model for recruiting and retaining talented Ohio residents in STEM and STEM-education fields. It is also supported by six Ohio foundations and the participating universities, which have pledged funds that match the support from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation of Princeton, New Jersey.

Founded in 1945, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (www.woodrow.org) identifies and develops leaders and institutions to address the critical challenges in education. It supports its Fellows as the next generation of leaders shaping American institutions and also supports innovation in their institutions.

For information about participating in the Fellowship program, email wwwteachingfellowship@woodrow.org or telephone 609-452-7007, ext 141. Text TEACHING to 30644 to receive mobile updates