To help universities and
colleges strengthen their language and area studies programs by enabling
faculty members to conduct research abroad in order to improve their skills in
languages and their knowledge of the cultures on which their academic
interests focus.
TYPES OF ASSISTANCE:
Project Grants. Place Cursor Here for Definition
USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS:
Generally, awards will not be available for projects focusing primarily on
Western Europe or on countries where the United States has no diplomatic
representation. Financial provisions include a stipend in lieu of salary; cost
of air fare for award recipient only; baggage allowance; project allowance to
purchase expendable materials; services and supplies; fees to foreign
institutions; and local travel expenditures. Fellowships are adjusted for
duplicating support.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
Applicant Eligibility:
Institutions of higher education may apply.
Beneficiary Eligibility:
Those benefiting will: (1a) Be a citizen or
national of the United States; (1b) be a permanent resident of the United
States; or (1c) provide evidence from the Immigration and Naturalization Service
that he or she is in the United States for other than a temporary purpose with
the intention of becoming a citizen or permanent resident; (2) be employed by an
institution of higher education; (3) have been engaged in teaching relevant to
his or her foreign language or area specialization for the 2 years immediately
preceding the date of the award; (4a) have proposed research relevant to a
modern foreign language or area specialization that cannot be conducted in the
United States, or for which a foreign country or region provides superior
research facilities; (4b) contribute to the development or improvement of the
study of modern foreign languages or area studies in those fields needed for a
full understanding of the area, regions, or countries in which the modern
foreign languages are commonly used; (4c) not be doing dissertation research for
a Ph.D.; and (5) possess adequate skills in the language or languages necessary
to successfully carry out the project.
Credentials/Documentation:
This program is excluded from coverage
under OMB Circular No. A-87.
Eligible institutions will be responsible
for accepting, screening, and forwarding through the Department of Education's
Application Control Center to the International Education and Graduate Programs
Service (IEGPS) International Education those individual applications that meet
the institution's technical and academic criteria and the program's eligibility
requirements. This program is excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No.
A-102. This program is excluded from coverage under E.O. 12372.
Application Procedure:
Faculty members may address requests for
general information to the Advanced Training and Research Team, International
Education and Graduate Programs Service. Completed applications should be
submitted directly to the faculty members employing institution, which will
forward them to the Application Control Center. This program is excluded from
coverage under OMB Circular No. A-110.
Award Procedure:
The IEGPS will make the initial selection and
recommendation of fellowship recipients with the advice of a panel of academic
specialists in modern foreign language and area studies and comments by U.S.
embassies and bi-national commissions in the proposed countries of research. The
selections are subject to review and final approval by the J. William Fulbright
Foreign Scholarship Board. The grant covering successful scholars is made to the
institutions which employ the faculty members.
Deadlines:
Generally the last week in October or the first week in
November of the year preceding the year of research. Exact date is announced in
the Federal Register. Contact the program office for more information.
Range of Approval/Disapproval Time:
Approximately 200 days.
Appeals:
Not applicable.
Renewals:
Not applicable.
ASSISTANCE CONSIDERATIONS:
Formula and Matching Requirements:
None.
Length and Time Phasing of Assistance:
From 3 to 12 months.
POST ASSISTANCE REQUIREMENTS:
Reports:
Award recipient: final program report submitted through the
grantee institution no later than 90 days after the termination date of the
award. Institution: fiscal year report.
Audits:
Fiscal records of institutions subject to the Department audit
at any time within 5 years after close of the fiscal year in which expenditures
are made.
Records:
Records bearing on receipt and expenditure of grant funds
must be made available for the Department inspection: (1) For 3 years after the
close of the fiscal year in which expenditures are made if departmental audit
has occurred by that time; (2) until audit or for 5 years following end of
budget period in which grant expired, whichever is later; or (3) until
resolution of outstanding audit questions.
FINANCIAL INFORMATION:
Account Identification:
91-0201-0-1-502.
Obligations:
(Grants) FY 01 $1,265,000; FY 02 est $1,432,000; and FY
03 est $1,580,000.
Range and Average of Financial Assistance:
In fiscal year 2001, the
average new award was $53,000.
Final Regulations published in Federal Register on December 19, 1983; 34 CFR
662.
INFORMATION CONTACTS:
Regional or Local Office:
Not applicable.
Headquarters Office:
Advanced Training and Research Team,
International Education and Graduate Programs Service, Office of Postsecondary
Education, Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington, DC
20202-5331. Contact: Eliza A. Washington. Telephone: (202) 502-7633.
Web Site Address:
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/OHEP
EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS:
The Effects of the Zimbabwe Revolution on the Southern African Regional
System; Refugee Integration and Repatriation in Eastern Sudan; Women in
Politics in Ecuador; Health Problems and the Accessibility and Utilization of
Health Care in Guanacaste, Costa Rica; Worker Cooperatives in Japan and
Culture of Cooperation; Technology and Nationalism in Late Colonial
Netherlands East Indies; Proficiency-Based Business Arabic; Nations,
Nationalism and Ethnicity: The Srilankan Model and its Transformations; Race,
Ethnicity, Social Class and Power in the Hispanic Caribbean: The Historical
Development and Contemporary Expression of Relations; The Americans in Prague:
A History of US-Czechoslovak Relations, 1918-1993; Central and East European
Countries and the European Union: Admission, Ternis, Impacts; Turkey's
Encounter with Nationalism and Modernity's Race, Class, and Gender in Black
Political Movements in South Africa, 1925- 1960: A Biography of Jose Mpama.
CRITERIA FOR SELECTING PROPOSALS:
Evaluation Criteria: (1) Quality of proposed project (maximum 45 points); (2)
qualifications of the beneficiary (maximum 45 points); and (3) priorities
(maximum 10 points) if announced in the Notice of Closing Date.
