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Fulbright Scholarships
Information Sessions
Van Wylen Library #222 - Granberg Room
Tuesday, September 10 at 11 AM
Wednesday, September 11 at 4 PM
Spring
semester begins the application process for juniors in
preparation
to apply in September of their senior year. Starting
the process in August or September of your senior year makes
for a tight timeline so be prepared to act quickly.
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This information changes, so check back often...
IMPORTANT DATES FOR FULBRIGHT FELLOWSHIP CANDIDATES
Ideally, this process should
begin during the spring semester of your Junior year.
2013 Application Process Timeline
Printable
Version - however, the details below are
the most up-to-date.
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| If you are a junior this year (2012-2013),
and are considering applying for
a Fulbright Fellowship in the fall
of 2013, (that is, if you want
a fellowship in the 2014-2015 academic year) your chances will
improve if you get an early
start on the application process.
Here are the important dates in the 2013 Fulbright Fellowship
application calendar.
If you are studying abroad in the spring of your junior
year,
you still need to follow the time line below with the exception
of attending the writing workshops. You will submit your drafts
as email attachments.
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| Offered early January & late August |
Attend one of the offered Information Session - see top of
page.
If you are a Hope College freshmen, sophomore,
or junior interested in being on our e-mail list for future
interest, please
complete this Google form. |
Jan.
28, 2013
(You may do this anytime
BEFORE this date, but please do it BY the date.)
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Complete
our Google
Fulbright form
to indicate your intention to proceed with the application
process.You
will be considered a serious candidate only after submitting
this Google form. At
any point, you may drop the process, just email facwr@hope.edu.
If you are unable to access the Google form, please e-mail
facwr@hope.edu with
the following information listed as outlined below in the
body of the email message. Please make your
subject line ‘Fulbright 2013 Application
Process’
1) Your full name.
2) Your phone number.
3) The kind of fellowship for which you plan to apply -
'Teaching Assistantship' or 'Research.'
4) The country to which you plan to apply (Choose only
one.)
5) The names of three faculty referees to whom you have
spoken about writing a recommendation for you. Talk
to your referees early and in person. In addition to your
three referees, include your foreign language evaluator,
if one is necessary for your program.
6) The name of the person who will complete your Language
Reference, if applicable.
7) Graduation year and month.
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| February 18, 2013 |
Turn
in the following documents
electronically as Word docs, double-spaced,
single-sided, to CWR@hope.edu:
1) Draft of your Statement
of Grant Purpose (one
page for English Teaching
Assistantships; two pages for
research
grants)
2) Draft of your one-page Personal Statement.
See the Fulbright web site and
the Hints we
hand out for information about
preparation of these documents. Keep working on them,
too.
3) A three- to four-page
essay on a book (a
book! Not a Web site!) that you have read about the country
to which you
plan to apply. Be sure to include full bibliographic
information (author, title, city, publisher, year of publication)
for
your
book.
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February 26 or 27, 2013
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Attend ONE of the mandatory
proposal workshops in March. The
workshops will run from 4:00 PM to about 5:30 PM in
Van Wylen Library's Granberg Rm#222.
You must come to one (but not both) of the workshops. |
| April 9 or 10, 2013 |
Attend ONE of the second
mandatory proposal workshops in
April.
April
10, 6-7:30 PM or April 12, from 8-9:30 PM in Van
Wylen Library's Granberg Rm#222. You must come
to one (but not both) of the workshops. |
| May 2013 onward |
Sometime in May, Fulbright will activate the current year's on-line
application link found via the Fulbright web site. Otherwise,
only previous submissions are accessible. |
Summer 2013
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You should use the summer to work on your
statement of grant purpose and personal
statement. The campus deadline for applications
is shown in the box below left. |
| September 23, 2013 |
Submit your completed on-line application. We will schedule campus interviews
after
the September date
listed at left.
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Please keep the following points in mind:
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If you think you MIGHT want to apply
for a Fulbright, but
are not yet sure, please
provide us with the required
information. Letting
us know you are thinking
of applying is not a firm commitment. It is better to start
early than
to start late.
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If you want to apply, you must comply with the deadlines
outlined on this sheet.
We reserve the right to drop you from the process if you miss
any of these deadlines without
a very good reason (as
defined by Professors Cunningham and Gibbs). This
is not a process you can complete at the last minute if you
hope to be successful.
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| Be sure to read the materials on the Fulbright
Web site. |
Hope College Fulbright Advisors are Dr. David
Cunningham and Dr. Janis Gibbs.
Fulbright Grants for Educational & Cultural Exchange
- Since 1946 the United States government has been offering grants
to recent graduates, graduate students and college faculty to conduct
study and/or teaching projects all over the world. These grants usually
last between six to twelve months and cover all livings cost as well
as providing a modest stipend. These are very prestigious awards,
and are available not only to graduates of larger universities but
also of liberal arts colleges such as Hope.
If you are interested in an academic year abroad right after graduation,
either studying at a university or teaching English, a Fulbright
Grant may be just what you are looking for! It can be anywhere in
the world, not just Europe!
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CONGRATULATIONS!
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Tessa Angell of Grand Rapids, Rachel Elzinga of Doylestown, Pa.,
and Erin Wilhelmi of Cary, Ill., have each received awards to teach
abroad during the coming year. Andreana Rosnik of Shelby Township
has received an award to conduct research abroad during 2013-14. |
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Michael J. Blauw of East Grand Rapids, Katelyn
J. Hemmeke of Hamilton and Amber N.
Rogers of Hershey, Pa., (pictured above
from left to right) have all received awards to teach abroad during
the coming year. |
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2011 Hope graduate Jeffrey Vredenburg (pictured at
right) and 2009
graduate Edward Helderop have each received highly competitive English
teaching assistantships for the coming year through the Fulbright
U.S. Student Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. |
Hope College Fulbright Recipients
- Press Release Directory
Fulbright's
Grantee Directory
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What Exactly is a Fulbright Scholarship?
There are many different types of Fulbright awards,
but the programs of interest to Hope College graduates are the Comprehensive
Grants, which support you for a year of study at a foreign
university, and the English Teaching Awards (ETA) which
place you at a high school or high schools to teach English as
an
assistant
part time.
For Comprehensive Grants, students propose a project
that they conduct at the foreign educational institution, and are
given basic travel and living support to carry out their project.
You specify the location.
For Teaching Awards, grantees usually teach about
15-20 hours a week, mostly assisting a teacher in the classroom (i.e.
not actually being the teacher). The rest of the time awardees usually
work on the language, travel and 'hang out'. You select the country,
but that country chooses your placement location.
Hope professor, Lee Forester, had a 2-year Fulbright award in Austria
Vienna as a graduate student. He taught about 10-15 hrs a week whenever
school was in session (which wasn't that often) and otherwise hung
out, finished his dissertation, traveled extensively and got married
in the process. It was a great experience for him!
Who is Eligible for a Fulbright?
To apply for a Fulbright Grant, you must be:
- A US citizen
- A recent graduate or graduate student
- In good health
Because this program is quite competitive, your academic credentials
should be good. A GPA of 3.5 or higher is advised, though we did
get
an award for a student with a lower GPA who made it as an alternate.
You also must be ready to spend a LOT of time on your application,
writing and refining your essay, your project proposal and discussing
it with faculty advisor Dr.
Cunningham. It is
quite doable but not a project to be taken lightly or at the
last minute if you want feedback.
How Do I Get More Information?
If you're interested in a Fulbright, you should spend some time
at the Fulbright
web site.
Here are a few files that may be of interest:
Competition
Statistics - Online Searchable
Fact Sheet (PDF)
Flow sheet of application process (PDF)
As you will see, some countries are more competitive than others.
A competitive application will have an excellent personal essay,
a
defined, feasible and interesting project proposal, strong letters
of support and will target a country where you have a reasonable
chance
(England and Australia are TOUGH!).
How Do I Formally Apply (once
all my preparations have been completed)?
Please see the timeline above for May and September.
If you would like feedback on your application before the
on-campus interview process begins ( and this is very
advisable), you are strongly advised to work with
Dr. Cunningham or
another faculty mentor during the Spring semester. We provide stipends
to faculty who work with you, so please don't be afraid to
ask for
this one-on-one help. We generally find that students who wait
until September to begin the process will submit substandard
(and often
ultimately unsuccessful) applications. The most important
pieces to submit for feedback are your ETA
Grant Statement and The
Personal Statement.
These should be e-mailed in Word format.
The "non-online" materials
include:
- If you are applying for a research grant (not a
teaching assistantship) please provide a
letter of affiliation from
someone at the institution you hope to work at in the host country, if
such affiliation is required for your program.
(This is not required for some countries, e.g. Japan,
nor for some
programs, e.g. the teaching
assistantship programs.)
- If your field is creative or performing arts,
there are additional instructions for submitting
samples of your
work. Example: slides of artwork, photographs, portfolios,
video recordings, & audio recordings all have specific criteria
and can be found on the Fulbright web site
Then you sit on your hands and wait until the spring (April - June)
to find out whether you got an award or not!
Language Program...
This program is offered by the US Dept. of State,
Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs and Administered
by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers:
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