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NSEP
Boren Graduate Fellowship
Website: http://borenawards.org
NSEP Graduate
Fellowship deadline: January 31, 2009
Important
Notes: Scholarships are for study outside of Western Europe,
Australia and New Zealand only. Please refer to website for list
of eligible countries. Candidates should be aware that winners
are required to 'pay back' their time spent abroad through work
for the federal government (please see note below).
UIC GRADUATE STUDENTS APPLYING FOR THE NSEP GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP NEED TO CONTACT LISA KNEPSHIELD OF THE UIC GRADUATE COLLEGE IN ORDER TO APPLY
Eligibility:
Only U.S. citizens are eligibile to apply. Applicants must be
enrolled in, or applying to, a graduate program. All proposals
must include the following: language study, study of an area or
culture, and study outside of Western Europe, Australia and New
Zealand.
In general,
candidates should have a good academic/career related reason to
study in the country they choose.
Description:
The National Security Education Program (NSEP) is a unique scholarship
opportunity for U.S. graduate students to study abroad. It seeks
to address the need to increase the ability of Americans to communicate
and compete globally by knowing the languages and cultures of
other countries.
The NSEP awards
fellowships to American graduate students for study of world regions
critical to U.S. interests. Awards are made for a minimum of one
and a maximum of six academic semesters (24 months). Overseas
study is based on program expenses for a maximum of $12,000 per
semester for up to two semesters. The level of support for domestic
study is flexible depending on the individual requirements of
each applicant. The total maximum level of support for a combined
domestic and overseas program is $30,000.
Applicants
design their own programs and may combine domestic language and
cultural study with overseas study.
NSEP Scholarship
recipients incur a service agreement requiring that they, "enter
into an agreement to work ina national security position as a
priority or, secondarily, to work in the field of higher education
in the area of study for which the scholarship was awarded."
Frequently, students find that they may "pay back" their
time through a position as a graduate assistant or professor at
an institution of higher education. NSEP is willing to work with
students to find ways to fulfull the service requirement.
Recent UIC
winners: 2002- Archana Reddy, Jennifer Schultz
Send
applications to: see website above; do not send to Special
Scholarship Programs
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