The Byron Hanke Fellowship is available to graduate students working on topics related to community associations. Community associations govern common-interest communities of any kind—condominiums, cooperatives, townhouse developments, planned
unit developments, and other developments where homeowners support an association with mandatory financial assessments, and are subject to use and aesthetic restrictions.
The Hanke Fellowship stipends range from $2,000-$4,000. The Foundation Executive Committee maintains the right to determine the amount of the stipend. Fellows are expected to prepare a research paper on community associations. Review our
style guide for specific program details (MS Word).
Project abstracts should be sent directly to the Foundation for Community Association Research at foundation@caionline.org or to 225 Reinekers Lane, Suite 300, Alexandria, VA 22314, attn: Hanke Fellowship. For more information, contact the Foundation at (888) 224-4321 or foundation@caionline.org.
Prior to sending in an application (PDF), please read information below regarding the eligibility requirements, areas and topics of study, evaluation and selection, and stipends and payments.
Eligibility Requirements
Hanke Fellowship applicants must be enrolled in an accredited master's, doctoral, or law program in the United States of America or Canada. Students of all disciplines are welcome to apply for the Hanke Fellowship, provided their studies relate to
community associations generally and to the topic of the candidate's proposed community associations research project.
Areas and Topics of Study
The Foundation recognizes and rewards outstanding achievement in the academic study of community associations. Papers submitted for the Byron Hanke Fellowship have come from a wide range of academic disciplines, including law, economics, sociology, and urban planning.
These disciplines are appropriate areas of graduate studies for a Hanke Fellowship, along with any others which the Foundation may be persuaded are relevant to community associations.
Within the field of community associations and common-interest communities, Hanke Fellowship projects may address management, institutions, organization and administration, public policy, architecture, as well as political, economic, social,
and intellectual trends in community association housing. Projects may focus on either applied or theoretical research. The Foundation is especially interested in substantive papers from the social sciences, which place community association housing within political or economic organizational models. In all cases, the topic must have the approval of the graduate student's general academic advisor, or of another full-time faculty member who will supervise the Hanke Fellow's project. The project topic must have potential of furthering understanding of residential community associations.
Evaluation and Selection
A selection committee administers the Hanke Fellowship program, including the screening and initial evaluation of applicants. Evaluation of applicants is on the basis of academic achievements, faculty recommendations, demonstrated research and
writing ability, and the nature of the proposed topic and its benefit to the study and understanding of community associations.
The Board of Directors of the Foundation makes the final selection. All awards will be based on merit, without regard to race, gender, or religion.
Stipends and Payments
Stipends and payments come from the Foundation for Community Association Research and are sent to recipients in three equal payments.
The first comes upon acceptance of the fellowship and his or her academic institution's certification that the student is both currently enrolled in the appropriate graduate program, and is authorized to accept a Hanke Fellowship.
The second installment of the stipend will be paid at the beginning of the second academic term following the first payment, upon confirmation of satisfactory progress by the Hanke Fellow's academic or project advisor. The funds must be used for tuition, books, or other expenses of the Fellow's graduate education, as documented by receipts submitted to the Foundation.
The final installment of the stipend will be paid upon completion of the project. The Hanke Fellow will also be obligated to provide to the Foundation a copy of the final project, in accordance with the Fellow's application. The Foundation may publish the project if it is deemed appropriate.
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