Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Purpose Academic Year FLAS Summer FLAS

	Eligibility and Award
	Languages
	Submitting the Application
	Application

ELIGIBILITY:

Applicants may compete for the Academic Year FLAS fellowship in more than one language, but may only receive the award for one language during the award period. Each language of study requires a separate and complete application packet. Applicants applying for the Summer 2008 FLAS must submit a separate and complete Summer 2008 application packet.

FLAS fellows must complete an electronic Student Performance Report at the end of the fellowship.Failure to submit this report can jeopardize future FLAS funding; holds will be place on students’ registration, diplomas and transcripts.You will be required to repay the FLAS fellowship funding for non-compliance.

AWARD & REQUIREMENTS:

With the approval from the United States Department of Education, Academic Year FLAS awards may be used for full-time dissertation research provided that the student is at the advanced level of language proficiency. The use of the foreign language in dissertation research must be extensive enough to be able to consider the language improvement facilitated by the research equal to improvement that would be obtained from a full academic year’s worth of formal classroom instruction. Please note that since the FLAS program is for language acquisition. Use of the FLAS fellowship for dissertation research is not encouraged by the U.S. Department of Education. The U.S. Department of Education prefers that students apply to the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad.

All overseas programs of study must be at the intermediate or advanced level of language proficiency and must be approved by the United States Department of Education at least thirty (30) days prior to the start of the program.

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Students who wish to apply and meet the eligibility criteria must complete an application and return it with the following supporting documents by February 29, 2008.

With each FLAS application, you must submit the following supporting materials:

A Personal Statement

Academic Transcripts

Two (2) Letters of Recommendation

You must submit 2 Letters of Recommendation, preferably from instructors who can comment on your work in the target language and appropriate world area. All letters should be submitted on either the enclosed form or on department letterhead.

Letter of Language Evaluation

If you are at the intermediate or advanced level of proficiency, but not enrolled in a language department, it is recommended (but not required) that you submit a Letter of Evaluation from a language instructor attesting to your proficiency in the language of application.All letters should be submitted on either the enclosed form or on department letterhead.

For each language of study, please send TWO completed applications to:

Columbia University
GSAS – Office of Financial Aid
535 West 116th Street, MC 4304
107 Low Memorial Library
New York, NY10027
Attn: Sandra Peters / FLAS

If you have questions or require further information, please email Sandra Peters at scp3@columbia.edu

If possible, please include Academic Transcripts, Letters of Recommendation and Letters of Language Evaluation in sealed and signed envelopes, with your application. Otherwise, transcripts and letters should be forwarded to the GSAS Office of Financial Aid as indicated above.

LATE OR INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS MAY NOT BE CONSIDERED.

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Instructions For Downloading the Academic Year FLAS application