The Fulbright Visiting Student Program: Junior Staff Development (JSD)
Course(s) Offered: Several
Course Level: Graduate (training)
Provider: U.S. Department of State; IIE
Country to Study in: USA
Scholarship Description
The Junior Staff Development Program is a non-degree computer program funded yesteryear the U.S. Department of State inwards Washington, D.C. together with administered yesteryear the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational together with Cultural Affairs together with the Institute of International Education (IIE) inwards New York.
The Junior Staff Development Program is designed primarily to strengthen capacities of African universities through higher bird preparation together with to develop the potential of their academic staff. It is targeted at immature together with exceptionally promising faculty members who wishing to bear their doctoral query inwards the United States.
Applicants must move at to the lowest degree 2 years into their doctoral computer program inwards whatever dependent acre at a Nigerian academy or query institute at the fourth dimension of application. However, preference volition move given to those applicants inwards the areas of natural together with social sciences, arts, together with humanities.
Eligibility
To move eligible for a grant:
Course(s) Offered: Several
Course Level: Graduate (training)
Provider: U.S. Department of State; IIE
Country to Study in: USA
Scholarship Description
The Junior Staff Development Program is a non-degree computer program funded yesteryear the U.S. Department of State inwards Washington, D.C. together with administered yesteryear the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational together with Cultural Affairs together with the Institute of International Education (IIE) inwards New York.
The Junior Staff Development Program is designed primarily to strengthen capacities of African universities through higher bird preparation together with to develop the potential of their academic staff. It is targeted at immature together with exceptionally promising faculty members who wishing to bear their doctoral query inwards the United States.
Applicants must move at to the lowest degree 2 years into their doctoral computer program inwards whatever dependent acre at a Nigerian academy or query institute at the fourth dimension of application. However, preference volition move given to those applicants inwards the areas of natural together with social sciences, arts, together with humanities.
Eligibility
To move eligible for a grant:
- Applicants must move citizens or nationals of Nigeria, or permanent residents asset a valid passport issued yesteryear the regime of Nigeria.
- Applicants must move doctoral students together with get got the endorsement of their abode institution.
- Applicants must move at to the lowest degree 2 years into their doctoral computer program inwards whatever discipline.
- Applicants must get got an outstanding academic tape together with high bird of English linguistic communication proficiency.
- Applicants must run into a minimum grade of 100 inwards the cyberspace based TOEFL test.
- Applicants must have high motivation together with a serious commitment to completing the computer program every bit scheduled together with to returning home.
- Only applicants amongst strong proposals, outlining their query objectives, methodology, time-frame, together with justification for conducting the query inwards the U.S. volition move short-listed for interviews.
- Preference volition move given to applicants who get got non studied inwards the U.S.
- Applicants inwards business, police line together with accounting should sympathise that unopen to U.S. institutions rarely convey query students inwards these fields due to high withdraw for full-time programs together with tuition concerns. As a consequence, nosotros appear upward non bad challenges inwards finding placements for such grantees unless their proposals are tilted toward economics, development-related areas, democracy, human rights together with conflict resolution.
Citizens of Nigeria
[Please banker's complaint that scholars from over 100 countries are awarded yearly, all the same data on this page is for Nigerian applicants only.]
Participating Institutions
All approved U.S. universities together with query institutions
Fields of study
Any dependent acre at whatever Nigerian academy or query institute (however, for 2017 the natural together with social sciences, arts together with humanities volition move given priority)
Number of awards
Not specified yesteryear sponsor
Sponsorship duration
From an academic semester to a amount academic twelvemonth (program length is iii to half-dozen months, half-dozen months to 1 year)
Scholarship benefits
The Program provides grants to bear post-doctoral query at U.S. institutions. Objectives of the Program include:
- To promote institutional linkages betwixt U.S. together with Nigerian universities together with institutions.
- To let on Nigerian academics to the U.S. teaching arrangement together with criterion query facilities for timely completion of their doctoral program.
- To promote teaching together with query likewise every bit manpower evolution for Nigeria’s higher institutions of learning.
- To let on grantees to leadership skills together with voluntary service amongst a stance to sensitizing them to beverage these values when they render home.
All prospective applicants for the Fulbright JSD Program must sympathise that the computer program is a non-degree program. The application together with instructions tin flame move found at the official website via the links below. All applicants must fill upward out the online application forms completely together with attach their supporting documents online (3 academic together with professional person references, Curriculum Vitae, academic transcripts from each post-secondary establishment attended together with writing sample.) All applications must move submitted online on or earlier the deadline below.
Applicants are advised to read the instructions preceding the application carefully together with seek the assistance of senior colleagues who are Fulbright alumna earlier they commence to fill upward inwards the forms.
ONLY online applications are accepted. Interested applicants tin flame apply online at the next website: https://apply.embark.com/student/fulbright/international/
DEADLINES;
Call for Applications commence Feb 1 every year. Deadline for submitting online application together with all supplementary documents is June 1
PLEASE NOTE:
The Fulbright Program offers grants to qualified Nigerian graduate students to bear query for a menses of fourth dimension inwards the United States. Nigerian scholars may apply to bear post-doctoral query at U.S. institutions together with are eligible for the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program. For to a greater extent than opportunities for Nigerians, see Fulbright Opportunities for Citizens of Nigeria.
The Fulbright Program is an American scholarship computer program of competitive, merit-based grants for international educational telephone substitution for students, scholars, teachers, professionals, scientists together with artists, founded yesteryear USA Senator J. William Fulbright inwards 1946. Under the Fulbright Program, competitively selected American citizens may piece of occupation eligible for scholarships to study, bear research, or practice their talents abroad; together with citizens of other countries may qualify to create the same inwards the USA of America. The computer program was established to growth usual agreement betwixt the people of the USA together with other countries through the telephone substitution of persons, knowledge, together with skills. It is 1 of the unopen to prestigious scholarships inwards the world.
Application Deadline: 1 June 2017
Open to International students: No (ONLY Nigerians)
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