Deadline for Spring 2007 Awards: October 5, 2006
Undergraduate students majoring in any field of study are
eligible to apply for these scholarships. Japanese language study
is not a prerequisite. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent
residents and must be enrolled as undergraduates in a college or
university in the United States. Bridging Scholarship recipients
receive a stipend of $2,500 (for students on semester-long programs)
or $4,000 (for students on academic year programs). Students
studying in Japan on summer programs are not eligible to
apply.
Applications for Bridging Scholarships are accepted twice
a year: the next deadline, for students who will be studying in
Japan beginning in Spring 2007, is October 5, 2006. Thirty
scholarships will be awarded for Spring 2007.
2007-2008 Awards Cycle:
Application deadline: March
2007
Notice of awards: May 2007
Orientation & Bahasa
Indonesia instruction: first two weeks in August 2007
Academic
Program: August/September 2007 to July 2008
The Government of the Republic of Indonesia is offering
scholarships to foreign nationals from countries which Indonesia has
friendly relations who are interested in studying Indonesian
languages, traditional arts, music and crafts for the academic year
of 2007/2008. This scholarship program, known as the Darmasiswa
Scholarship, has been organized and funded by the Government of the
Republic of Indonesia since the year of1974. It is administered by
the Ministry of National Education, in collaboration with several
national universities and institutes in Indonesia. The scholarship
offered under the Darmasiswa scheme is a non-degree program and not
applicable for doing research projects. The academic programs should
usually be completed between nine to twelve months.
For more information, contact the Indonesian Consulate General
Los Angeles 3457 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90010 Tel:
213-383-5126 Fax: 213/487-3971, or visit the website at: http://www.kjri-la.net/
Application Deadline for Fall 2007: April 3, 2007
The Gilman International Scholarship Program offers grants for
U.S. citizen undergraduate students of limited financial means to
pursue academic studies abroad. Such international study is intended
to better prepare U.S. students to assume significant roles in an
increasingly global economy and interdependent world.
Students
who apply for and receive the Gilman Scholarship to study abroad are
now eligible to receive an additional $3,000 Critical Need Language
Supplement from the Gilman Program for a total possible award of up
to $8,000. 25 Critical Need Language Supplements will be offered to
Gilman Scholarship recipients during the 2006-2007 academic year.
Asian Critical Need Languages include: Chinese (all dialects), Indic
(Hindi, Urdu, Nepali, Sinhala, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati,
Sindhi) and Korean.
For more information, visit http://www.iie.org/programs/gilman/index.html.
Students who are
interested in applying should discuss their plans with ASU’s
International Programs Office (http://honors.asu.edu/) and with
Dr. Janet Burke (janet.burke@asu.edu/) at
ASU’s
National Scholarship Office.
Application Cycle for Academic Year 2007-08:
Spring 2007 & Early Academic Year 2007-08 Award: Deadline,
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Summer 2007 Award: Deadline,
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Fall 2007 & Academic Year 2007-08
Awards: Deadline, Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Freeman-ASIA Awards of up to $7,000 are available for students
participating in undergraduate study abroad programs in East and
Southeast Asia.
The primary goal of the Freeman Awards for Study in Asia
(Freeman-ASIA), an IIE-administered program generously supported by
the Freeman Foundation, is to increase the number of American
undergraduates who study in East and Southeast Asia, by providing
students with the information and the financial assistance they will
need. Since its inception, Freeman-ASIA has supported over 2,900
U.S. students to study abroad in East and Southeast Asia.
For more information on full eligibility criteria and the on-line
application process, please visit the Freeman-ASIA website at: http://www.iie.org/programs/Freeman-ASIA/
Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology (Monbukagakusho) sponsors seven types of Japanese
government-sponsored scholarships available under the Japanese
Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship program: those for graduate
(research) students, undergraduate university students, teacher
training students, Japanese studies students, college of technology
students, special training students and YLP students. Japanese
proficiency is not required at the time of application unless
otherwise noted; however, scholarship recipients are required to
take Japanese language classes in Japan.
For more information about
the 2007 awards cycle and applications, visit the website: http://www.studyjapan.go.jp/en/toj/toj0302e.html
Application deadline for 2007: January 12, 2007
The National Security Education Program (NSEP) provides a unique
funding opportunity for U.S. students to study world regions
critical to U.S. interests including Asia, and Eurasia. NSEP was
designed to provide Americans with the resources and encouragement
they need to acquire skills and experiences in areas of the world
critical to the future security of our nation, in exchange for a
commitment to seek work in the federal government. As students of
other cultures and languages, NSEP Boren Scholars (undergraduate
students) and Fellows (graduate students) begin to acquire the
international competence needed to communicate effectively across
borders, to understand other perspectives, and to analyze economic
and political affairs. The National Flagship Language Program offers
training in Mandarin and Korean.
To apply, ASU students should work directly with ASU’s Office of
National Scholarship Advisement:
http://honors.asu.edu/. For more
information about the NSEP, visit their website at: http://www.iie.org/programs/nsep/default.htm
Application deadline: March 1, 2007
Scholarships for
Southeast Asian Students are being offered by the Nisei Student
Relocation Commemorative Fund (NSRC Fund). This Fund was founded in
1980 by Nisei (second generation Japanese in Americans) who had been
college students during World War II when they were forcibly
incarcerated in U.S. internment camps, abruptly halting their
education. Because of the compassionate intervention of the National
Japanese American Student Relocation Council, over 5,000 Nisei were
assisted in leaving the camps and continuing their education
elsewhere. Scholarships of $1000 or more will be awarded to
qualified students who will be attending an accredited vocational,
trade or cosmetology school or two- or four-year college or
university. Interest from the NSRCF endowment is awarded to
Southeast Asian students to help cover expenses during their first
year of college. Since 1983 the NSRCF has awarded more than $340,000
to 365 deserving students.
For more information visit: http://www.nsrcfund.org/., or
email info@nsrcfund.org.
Application Deadline extended: 17 April 2007
The Sage Family Southeast Asian Studies Scholarship is a tribute
to William W. Sage’s interest in and lifelong work in Laos and
Southeast Asia and is in loving memory and honor of his parents,
Lloyd G. and Twyla M. Sage. The purpose of the scholarship is to
support travel and study abroad in Laos and Southeast Asia for
undergraduate students in Southeast Asian Studies at Arizona State
University. It provides $2,000 for a summer or academic year in
Southeast Asia. Applicants must be pursuing a Certificate in
Southeast Asian Studies or have completed specific courses offered
by the Center for Asian Research at the discretion of the selection
committee.
Application Deadline: usually by January 31 of the year the
course is offered.
The Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute is funded by a grant
from the US Department of Education. It is an intensive eight-week
course of study in advanced Vietnamese to be conducted in Viet Nam
with instruction provided by the Hanoi Vietnamese Language Center,
under the auspices of the Hanoi University of Foreign Studies, and
the Saigon Vietnamese Language School for Foreigners, under the
aegis of the Viet Nam National Ministry of Education &
Training.
For more information, visit the website http://streamingmedia.org/vasi or
email Thuy-Kim Phan Le at kim.le@asu.edu.
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