(Name-mce) ListServ Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program

[Villanueva Anselmo]

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September 08, 2006

Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program

U.S. Department of Education
Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program
Application deadline: September 28, 2006

The U.S. Department of Education's Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad
Program seeks educators and administrators with responsibilities for
curriculum development in fields related to humanities, languages, and
area studies who demonstrate the need to develop and enhance their work
through short-term study and travel abroad. The program will hold ten
seminars in 2007 with 16 positions per seminar, subject to the
availability of funds. Seminars will take place from late June to
mid-August 2007 for a duration of four to six weeks each.

Basic Eligibility Requirements:

*Must be a citizen of the United States or a permanent resident;
*must hold at least a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or
university;
*must have at least three years of education-related full-time
experience; 
*must be currently employed full-time in a U.S. school system,
institution of higher education, local education agency, state education
agency, library, or museum.

 

The Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program
<http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpssap/index.html>  provides opportunities
for overseas experience. The program is open to educators and
administrators with responsibilities for curriculum development in
fields related to humanities, languages, and area studies. Topics and
host countries of the seminars vary from year to year. All seminars are
in non-western European countries. Seminars are designed to provide a
broad and introductory cultural orientation to a particular country
(ies). The program is geared towards those educators with little or no
experience in the host country (ies) who demonstrate the need to develop
and enhance their curriculum through short-term study and travel abroad.
There are ten seminars being offered for 2007 with 16 positions per
seminar, subject to the availability of funds. Seminars take place from
late June to mid-August for a duration of four to six weeks.

Country seminars offered in 2007 include:

Elementary/Secondary

Secondary/Postsecondary

China
China*
India**
Canada and Mexico
Thailand and Vietnam
Japan (language only) 

Brazil
Egypt and Israel
Poland and Russia
South Africa

* This seminar is open to foreign language instructors
** Open to math and science educators

Terms of the award include: (1) round-trip economy airfare; (2) room and
board; (3) fees; and (4) program-related travel within the host
country(ies). Participants are responsible for a cost share, usually
$350.00. Updated application forms are available
<http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpssap/applicant.html>  on the program Web
site. The summer 2007 application deadline is September 28, 2006.

Those qualified to apply:

*	Elementary school teachers in the fields of social sciences,
humanities, including languages; 
*	Middle or high school educators in the fields of social
sciences, humanities, including languages; 
*	Administrators or curriculum specialists who have responsibility
for curriculum in the fields of social sciences, humanities, including
languages; 
*	Librarians, museum educators or media or resource specialists
who have responsibility for curriculum in the fields of social sciences,
humanities, including languages; and 
*	Faculty or administrators from public or private, two- or
four-year institutions of higher education whose discipline is related
to social sciences, humanities, languages, and/or area studies. 

Basic eligibility requirements:

*	Citizenship - must be a citizen of the United States or a
permanent resident. 
*	Academic Preparation - must hold at least a bachelor's degree
from an accredited college or university. 
*	Professional Experience - (1) must have at least three years of
education-related full-time experience - by the time of departure for
the seminar; (2) must be currently employed full-time in a U.S. school
system, institution of higher education, local education agency, state
education agency, library, or museum. 
*	Language Proficiency - must meet the general language
requirement (Japan seminar only). 
*	Health - The candidate must be physically and psychologically
able to participate in all phases of the seminar. Award recipients must
provide a physician's statement to reflect participant's readiness for
travel. 
*	Those individuals who have participated in the Fulbright-Hays
Seminars Abroad Program or Group Projects Abroad Program
<http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsgpa/index.html>  must wait three
summers before they can be eligible to participate a second time.