Funds for Experiential Learning
Trinity College students can apply for funds to support experiential learning opportunities, such as funding to assist with attendance at conferences, service learning and study abroad programs.
TRINITY COLLEGE EXPERIENTIAL FUNDING
Trinity College students can apply for financial support to participate in experiential learning opportunities.
Eligibility Criteria:
Funding is available for full-time and part-time Trinity students to assist with participation in experiential opportunities that do not, in and of themselves, lead to course credit. The experiential opportunity can occur during the term in which a student is registered, or in a summer session in which a student is not registered, provided they were registered in the previous Fall-Winter term. Funding is not available in the summer session following graduation.
Application:
Completed applications should be submitted to the Trinity’s Office of the Registrar by email at registrar@trinity.utoronto.ca.
Experiential Funding Application
TRINITY ALUM PAYS IT FORWARD
Montieth Illingworth ’80, President of Montieth & Company, has created an endowment fund at Trinity College to support international travel and experiential learning opportunities for students. Click below to read the full story.
The inspiration for this fund came through personal experience. His first year at university was a challenge, and it was his travel experiences that ultimately gave him the direction he needed to excel as a student. “I deferred a year and travelled in Europe and the Middle East. My first year was a tough transition. I struggled academically. In a sense I wanted to get back to ‘real world’ experiences.” And so, in 1977, Montieth decided to go to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), then in the grips of a bloody civil war, to document the clash between the African majority and the ruling European minority.
“I wanted to go in part to bring attention to a gross injustice. That was important then, post-Watergate, the war in Vietnam was ending, and the liberation and independence movements throughout Africa were still fresh on people’s minds. I suppose it was a Hemingwayesque way of engaging in the world.”
What he experienced in Rhodesia would shape his life in ways he never could have imagined. Upon his return, the 20 year old published his first article and photographs in the Globe and Mail documenting parts of his experiences in Africa.
“The experience shaped me in so many ways. It made me a better student, but not without a lot of support from my Trinity professors.” The experience, and the publishing of his article inspired him to go into journalism. “Without that experience, and the Globe and Mail piece, I would have never gotten into the Journalism School at Columbia.” This decision set Illingworth on a journalistic career spanning 15 years, writing on a wide range of topics, from foreign affairs to African political economy, business and finance and the business of sports as well as a 1991 biography of infamous boxer Mike Tyson (Mike Tyson: Money, Myth and Betrayal).
These experiences are what inspired Montieth to create the Montieth M. Illingworth Fund. “Academics are absolutely key of course, but so is practical experience. So if the fund has a theme it is to support travel for student projects that both engage the world on important topics and align with an academic interest. But it’s also about getting out of your own comfort zone, opening your eyes up to a reality which you know is out there but you really can’t understand until you see it, get into it, feel it tangibly, experience the people who are impacted, what they feel and think.”
Montieth believes that these experiences not only shaped his life, but made him both a better student, and a better person. Learn more about Montieth and how his on- and off-campus Trinity experiences helped to shape his career and his character.