Dear Colleagues: How should we be leading higher education today? With boldness, wisdom and courage.
April 15, 2025Call for Applications: Spark Magazine Editorial Board
April 23, 2025
Become an Editorial Board Member for Spark
We invite scholars to apply for the Spark editorial board. Spark editorial board members adopt our social justice centric editorial board values to learn from and collaborate with our writers through an open-review process.
Spark is an open-access publication that offers timely and scholarly-informed content. Readers can gain a general level of understanding on historical and current social issues so that they can make informed decisions that affect them, their families and communities. Uniquely positioned at the intersection of academic journals and popular media, Spark’s review process draws from peer-reviewed academic practices and promotes well-informed essays.
Editorial board members review submission and provide guidance and leadership. Responsibilities include:
- Provide open-reviews for 2-3 essays per year, following Spark review guidelines to offer constructive and developmental feedback that will lead to more publicly accessible essays.
- Attend 2-3 board meetings per year with fellow editors that represent various academic disciplines and institutions.
- Support in advancing the publications reach and impact efforts by disseminating to a broad readership.
- Provide feedback on the infrastructure and future of the publication.
Editorial board members are often tenured, tenure-track, clinical and research faculty (including lecturers), research staff, or postdoctoral fellows.
Apply by May 31, 2025
Term & Compensation
Board members serve for two years (August 2025 - August 2027) and receive a $1,200 stipend in two payments. University of Michigan faculty receive a research fund transfer instead of a stipend.