Texas Lyceum Fellowship

Sarah Jackson, Texas Lyceum Vice President for Fellowships and a Bush School graduate; James McKenzie, Bush School ’20 and Texas Lyceum Fellow; and Dr. Ann Bowman, Bush School Professor

Sarah Jackson, then Texas Lyceum Vice President for Fellowships and a Bush School graduate; James McKenzie, Bush School ’20 and Texas Lyceum Fellow; and Dr. Ann Bowman, Bush School Professor

The Texas Lyceum Fellowship offers Bush School graduate students an academically centered opportunity to develop research and analysis skills for future careers in public policy analysis. The Texas Lyceum is an independent, nonpartisan institution dedicated to cultivating young leaders by exploring policy issues in Texas in order to increase understanding of those concerns among the state’s current leaders. The Texas Lyceum Fellowship helps this esteemed organization promote research-driven solutions at the highest levels of state government.

The student selected for the Texas Lyceum Fellowship will be expected to work alongside a supervising Bush School professor on a research project on a specific policy topic. Tasks assigned during the fellowship will deliver experience analyzing and interpreting statistical tests and trends from original data, culminating in the production of a high-quality written brief to be published in the Mosbacher Institute’s The Takeaway. Additionally, the fellow will share research findings at one of the Texas Lyceum’s Quarterly Meetings or the annual Public Conference, a unique opportunity to represent the Bush School and network with Texas Lyceum Directors and guests.

The fellowship is contingent upon fulfilling the obligations and expectations described by the Texas Lyceum and delivering high-quality outputs from his or her fellowship experience.

The Texas Lyceum Fellow will be awarded $5,000 for his or her research and analytic efforts and will be expected to plan and oversee the disbursement of these funds. If the fellowship takes place over the summer, it can count as fulfillment of the summer internship requirement that students are expected to complete between their first and second year at the Bush School.

Applicants to the program must be enrolled as a graduate student at the Bush School, have domestic policy interests, be in good academic standing with a minimum GPA of 3.0 and no course grade lower than a B. Applicants with strong backgrounds in policy, economics, finance, and statistics will have priority in the selection process.

Jennifer Moore
Assistant Director
Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy
The Bush School of Government and Public Service