Deadline: Application for McNeill Common Good Fellowship

Deadline: Sunday, February 15, 2026

The McNeill Common Good Fellows are a community of students from across all Notre Dame colleges committed to exploring life’s biggest questions through shared coursework, community engagement, faculty-mentored research, and adventure. Through practices of contemplation and action and the art of dialogue and debate, each student cultivates their character, hones their sense of moral purpose in the world, and learns the tools of justice making.

McNeill Common Good Fellows tackle the great questions of life: What does it mean to live an ethical life of purpose and meaning? What is more important: happiness, success, or wealth? What should we hope for? What does a good life look like? What role ought faith play in our lives? What does Catholic social tradition teach us?

First-year students can apply for this paid, three-year fellowship in an interdisciplinary community of scholars eager to explore how to live an ethical life of meaning, purpose, and impact.