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Fellowship and Aid Opportunities:
Fellowships and Grants
Foreign Language and
Area Fellowships (FLAS)
American Council of
Learned Societies (ACLS)
ACLS Individual
East European Language Training Grants
Foreign Language Enhancement
Program (FLEP) Scholarships
Student Loans
Foreign Language and Area Fellowships (FLAS)
A number of FLAS fellowships to graduate students will be available through the REEI to study the following languages: Russian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Czech, Hungarian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Ukrainian, and Georgian, and through IAUNRC to study: Azerbaijani, Hungarian, Kazakh, Mongolian, Pashto, Tajik, Turkmen, Uyghur and Uzbek.
To be eligible for a FLAS award you must:
- be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident
- be currently enrolled in a graduate program or accepted for graduate enrollment for fall 2009
- have completed at least two years of formal study of the language, if applying for Russian; those studying any of the other languages listed above need no prior study to be eligible.
FLAS fellowships cover tuition costs and provide an estimated allowance of $2,500 for food and housing.
The application deadline for Fellowships is March 20. Decisions on FLAS fellowships are made in late-April.
PLEASE NOTE: to minimize paperwork, only recipients of fellowships and
alternates will receive formal notification. Fellowship assistance is
available only to students in the 8-week session.
If you wish to apply for a FLAS fellowship, you must check
the appropriate box on the application form
and submit a full set of transcripts and two or three letters of recommendation
(see the application form for details).
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
For summer 2009, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) will fund the teaching of first year Slovene, Polish, and Czech in addition to Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Macedonian, and Romanian.
If you wish to be considered for a fee remission in these languages you must check the appropriate box on the application page. Please note, however, that participants pay University and Workshop fees.
ACLS Language Grants to Individuals for Summer Study
For the study of East European languages, students may apply for the ‘Language Grant to Individuals for Summer Study,’ directly through ACLS. Grants are up to $2500 each for summer study of beginning, intermediate, or advanced intensive summer study of Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, or Slovene. These awards are intended for people who will use these languages in academic research or teaching. The deadline is January 16th for summer 2009. The application should specify the name of the institution they wish to attend, along with a statement of the significance of this training for their career plans. For eligibility and application information visit: the ACLS Language Grants to Individuals for Summer Study webpage or acls.org/.
Foreign Language Enhancement Program (FLEP)
scholarships
Offered through the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), FLEP provides scholarships of up to $2,000 to help graduate students from CIC schools (University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana University, Northwestern University, University of Minnesota, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University and University of Wisconsin-Madison) take advantage of language offerings not available at their home university. Students from these schools may use a FLEP scholarship to take language offerings at the Summer Workshop. In past summers a substantial number of graduate students from CIC institutions have enrolled in langauges offered by the Summer Workshop. For eligibility and application information visit: www.cic.uiuc.edu/programs/flep
The Indiana University Fellowship, provided by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Provost, will be awarded for intensive summer study of the following Central Eurasian languages: Azerbaijani, Hungarian, Kazakh, Mongolian, Pashto, Tajik, Turkmen, Uyghur and Uzbek. The fellowships will be available to graduate and undergraduate students, as well as to non students, and may be used toward tuition or room and board.
For Indiana University students the priority submission date to apply for student loans is March 1. We encourage you to explore the various options for need-based financial aid through the Office of Student Financial Aid (OSFA). Other students must apply for student loans at their own schools.