FLAS Fellowships

Summer: $2,500 living stipend PLUS up to $5,000 for tuition and selected fees
Academic Year: Undergraduates: $5,000 living Stipend PLUS up to $10,000 for tuition and selected fees; Graduate students: $15,000 living Stipend PLUS up to $18,000 for tuition and selected fees

Nominations

The Institute for Global Studies (IGS), and the European Studies Consortium (ESC) invite ALL ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS to nominate up to three

undergraduate students for summer
undergraduate students for academic year;
graduate students for a summer, and
graduate students for academic year.

Informational Meetings

To facilitate the application process, we will be holding informational meetings for students and nominating departments.

Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, 2-218 Carlson School, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. (special emphasis on professional school students);
Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, 118 Folwell Hall 3:30-4:30 p.m.;
Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, 260 Social Sciences, 1:30-2:30 p.m. (special emphasis on undergraduate students);
Wednesday, Nov 23, 2011, 260 Social Sciences, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

During these meetings we will discuss such things as eligibility and priorities and strategies for successful applications.

Eligibility

New and returning students are eligible for awards. FLAS fellowship nominees must be degree-seeking students in good academic standing enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Undergraduate students are eligible for FLAS fellowships to study intermediate (2nd-year) or advanced (3rd-year and beyond) levels of a less-commonly-taught language (LCTL.) Undergraduate students are NOT eligible for FLAS funding for 1st-year LCTL instruction or for more-commonly-taught language instruction (i.e. French, German and Spanish).
Graduate students in all programs are eligible, although fellowships will not be awarded to graduate students who major in French, German, or Spanish to study the language of their major. They are eligible to study another language.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Foreign students are NOT eligible.

Application Deadline

Friday, February 17, 2012 at 4:30 p.m.
Note: This is the deadline for departments to submit nominations to IGS. Students should verify internal deadlines with their nominating departments

Languages

Currently we have approval to offer FLAS fellowships in the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Modern Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Somali, Swedish, Turkish and Urdu.

US/ED Funding Priorities

Fellowships to students in the least-commonly taught national need languages who are pursuing advanced level language proficiency.
Fellowships to talented students pursuing master's degrees who may be more likely to pursue government service.

Please be advised that proposals to study Spanish, French, or German are never funded.

We strongly encourage graduate students who want to take an intensive summer course in a less-commonly-taught language also to check out alternative funding sources, some of which are listed on the IGS web site at igs.cla.umn.edu/grad/.

International Studies and Western European Studies