U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
FULBRIGHT-HAYS SEMINARS ABROAD PROGRAM
The Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program provides opportunities for educators and administrators with responsibilities for curriculum development in fields related to humanities, languages, and area studies.
The seminars were created under the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange (Fulbright-Hays) Act of 1961. Topics and host countries of the seminars vary from year to year. All seminars are in Non-Western European countries. Seminars are designed to provide a broad and introductory cultural orientation to a particular country(ies). The program is geared towards those educators with little or no experience in the host country(ies) who demonstrate the need to develop and enhance their curriculum through short-term study and travel abroad. There are ten seminars every summer with approximately 16 positions per seminar, subject to the availability of funds. Seminars normally take place from late June to mid-August and last four to six weeks.
Terms of the award include: round-trip economy airfare, room and board per diem, program-related travel within the host country(ies).
Participants will be responsible for contributing approximately $350 to help defray the cost of program expenses. Updated application forms are available in September of each year and the application deadline date is normally in late October to early November of each year.
THOSE QUALIFIED TO APPLY:
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Elementary School Educators/Administrators
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Middle or High School Teachers in fields relating to humanities, social sciences, languages and/or area studies
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Administrators, Curriculum Specialists who have responsibility for curriculum development in fields relating to humanities, social sciences, languages and/or area studies
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Faculty/Administrators from institutions of higher education-public/private, 2 or 4 year whose discipline is related to humanities, social sciences, languages and/or area studies
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Museum Educators or Media Specialists who have responsibility for curriculum development in fields relating to humanities, social sciences, languages and/or area studies
BASIC ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
- Citizenship - must be a citizen of the United States or a permanent resident.
- Academic Preparation - must hold at least a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
- Professional Experience - (1) must have at least three years of full-time experience (by the time of departure for the seminar) teaching humanities, social sciences, languages and/ or area studies in a school system, museum, or institution of higher education in the U.S.; and (2) must be currently employed full-time in teaching, or administering in humanities social sciences, languages, and/or area studies subjects in a U.S. school system, U.S. institution of higher education, U.S. State or local education agency, or museum in the U.S.
- Language Proficiency - must meet the general language requirement.(Japan seminar only).
- Health: Must be able to endure intensive travel involving a moderate to high degree of rigorous travel. Award recipients must provide a physician's statement to reflect participant's readiness for travel.
Those individuals who have participated in the Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program or Group Projects Abroad Program must wait three summers before they can be eligible to participate a second time.
APPLICATION INQUIRIES:
Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program, U.S. Department of Education, International Education and Graduate Programs Service, 1990 K Street, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20006-8521,
Telephone: Gale Holdren at (202) 502-7691, gale.holdren@ed.gov or Michelle Guilfoil at (202) 502-7625, michelle.guilfoil@ed.gov. Website: www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/HEP/iegps/sap.htm1
