CIES Fulbright Scholar Program Competition

CIES Fulbright Scholar Program competition: The Fulbright Scholar Program is offering lecturing/research awards in over 130 countries for the 2006-2007 academic year. Opportunities are available not only for college and university faculty and administrators, but also for professionals from business and government, as well as artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent scholars and many others. There are awards in 45 different disciplines and professional fields, as well as in a variety of subdisciplines such as gender studies and peace studies. Traditional Fulbright awards are available from two months to an academic year or longer. Although foreign language skills are needed in some countries, most Fulbright lecturing assignments are in English. Approximately 80 percent of the awards are for lecturing.

A new short-term grants program the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program offers two-to-six-week grants in a variety of disciplines and fields. Two other new programs are the New Centuries Scholars Program and the Alumni Initiatives Awards Program. For information on the new programs, see www.cies.org.

Deadlines for the different programs are: May 1 for Fulbright Distinguished Chair awards in Europe, Canada and Russia; August 1 for Fulbright traditional lecturing and research grants worldwide; November 1 for the summer German Studies Seminar and for spring/summer seminars in Germany, Korea and Japan for academic and international education administrators; the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program has a rolling deadline.

For information, contact the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) at 3007 Tilden Street, NW, Suite 5L, Washington, DC 20008-3009. Telephone: 202.686.7877; E-mail:apprequest@cies.iie.org.

Information and an online application are also available on the Web at www.cies.org/us_scholars. Contact information for program officers is also available at www.cies.org/amstaff.htm.

Dr. Erin Crawley has some CIES brochures on hand, as well as some information on the program, fellow@intl-institute.wisc.edu, 262-9632.

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