The University of California, Santa Cruz invites applications for a student fellowship opportunity with the University of California. This $4,000 year long fellowship will support the contributions of outstanding undergraduate and graduate students to work with campus staff and academic advisors on core objective areas related to Sustainable Food Systems, Food Access & Security, and Social Equity.
This fellowship, formerly known as the Global Food Initiative fellowship, seeks to uplift campus sustainable food systems efforts. Further, Sustainable Food Systems fellows will help campuses and health systems define the actions and resources needed to procure at least 25 percent of UC’s food supplies from sustainable sources by 2025. Fellows may work on areas of high priority to those in campus and health system food service operations, such as:
- Aligning definitions and reporting of sustainable and plant-based food procurement
- Engaging UC community members on sustainable food priorities
- Conducting data collection and analysis of current institutional food procurement
- Working directly with food service procurement and operations staff to identify challenges and potential solutions related to increasing sustainable food procurement
- Identifying the costs associated with switching to sustainable suppliers to meet the 25% goal
- Completing or auditing the food service annual reporting for the systemwide Sustainability Annual Report
- Developing case studies on sustainable food procurement actions taken by locations
- Preparing grant submissions to support sustainable food priorities
Applicants must be matriculated undergraduate or graduate students at UC Santa Cruz for the entire 2024-2025 academic year. To apply, review the details below and complete the application form. The application includes identifying two references that the review committee may contact before finalizing the selected candidates for this year. One reference must be a UCSC faculty or academic advisor and the second can be an internship agency sponsor or work/professional related reference.
The application deadline is September 19th. View the application for more details and to apply.
