FLAS Fellowships

Summer: $2,500 living stipend PLUS tuition and selected fees
Academic Year: Undergraduates: support levels still to be determined by the US Department of Education; Graduate students: living stipend PLUS tuition and selected fees

Nominations

The Consortium for the Study of the Asias (CSA), 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 FLAS Fellowships;
graduate students for a summer and
graduate students for Academic Year FLAS Fellowships.

Informational Meetings

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

Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 205 Humphrey Institute, 3:30-4:30 p.m. with special emphasis on professional school applicants;
Thursday, November 19, 2009, 246 Social Sciences Tower, 3:30-4:30 p.m.with special emphasis on undergraduate student applicants; and
Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 246 Social Sciences Tower, 3:30-4:30 p.m.with special emphasis on graduate student applicants.

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 Spainsh).
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.

Languages

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

US/ED Funding Priorities

Fellowships to students in the least-commonly taught 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 beginning Spanish, French, or German are rarely funded.

Students wishing to find funding for dissertation research abroad should apply to the Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program.

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/.

Asian Studies, International Studies, and Western European Studies