Description
In January 2001, just as Chairman Archer was shifting out of his life in public service and back to the private sector for the first time in 40 years, the inaugural class of the Archer Fellowship Program, comprised of 10 students from UT Austin, arrived in Washington, D.C. In the last 18 years, more than 1250 of the brightest undergraduate and graduate students of the UT System have participated in a semester- or summer-long experiential learning program that allows each student to work in a full-time internship and attend courses for in-residence credit. Archer Fellows work in the White House, across Capitol Hill, in various federal agencies and non-profits, in international organizations, and in governmental arms of private sector entities.
Archer Fellows have used their semester in Washington as a springboard to impactful careers or to pursue graduate training at the best institutions this country and the world have to offer. Hundreds of our fellows have since graduated from or are enrolled in doctoral programs or professional programs in law and medicine at such prestigious universities as Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, Georgetown, London School of Economics, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, MIT, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and every campus within the UT System. Their accomplishments have been distinguished by the awarding of Truman, Marshall, Rhodes, Schwarzman and Fulbright Scholarships in further support of their education.
