[nfbwatlk] Fw: [AERNet] For college-bound students interested instudy abroad

[Noel Nightingale]

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Hello:

     I thought the following might be of interest.

Regards,

Robert Jaquiss

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From: "Judi Piscitello" <JPISCITE at MAIL.NYSED.GOV>
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Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 1:53 PM
Subject: [AERNet] For college-bound students interested in study abroad


>I have heard that this scholarship program hasn't had as many students

>with disabilities apply as they would like.
> 
> Gilman International Scholarship Program
> 
> Awards of up to $8,000 for U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad

> for up to one academic year are awarded through the Gilman 
> International Scholarship Program.  Application Deadline is September 
> 26, 2006 for those intending to start studying abroad in Spring 2007.
> 
> The Gilman Program aims to diversify the kinds of students who study 
> abroad and the countries and regions where they go.  The program 
> serves students who have been underrepresented in study abroad, 
> including but not limited to: students with high financial need, 
> community college students, students in underrepresented fields such 
> as the sciences and engineering, students from diverse ethnic 
> backgrounds, students attending minority-serving institutions, and 
> students with disabilities.  The program seeks to assist students from

> a diverse range and type of two-year and four-year public and
> private institutions from all 50 states.
> 
> Eligibility: Students must be receiving a Federal Pell Grant at the 
> time of application and cannot be studying abroad in a country 
> currently under a U.S. Department of State Travel Warning or in Cuba.
> 
> The Gilman International Scholarship Program is sponsored by the 
> U.S.Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs 
> and administered by the Institute of International Education.
> 
> "The Gilman award provided the extra funding I needed to help with 
> travel, books and food while in the United Kingdom. The University of 
> Swansea, Wales proved perfect for me, both in size-a campus I could 
> easily walk in spite of cerebral palsy-and in the academic classes 
> offered. The upper-level literature courses covered topics in my main 
> interest, British literature, and I was delighted at the chance to 
> take beginning-level Welsh, one of the most beautiful, and oldest, 
> languages in Europe." - Mary Trickel, graduate of the University of 
> Tennessee-Knoxville (excerpt from
> article)
> 
> For more information, full eligibility criteria, and the online 
> application, visit the Gilman website <http://www.iie.org/gilman> or 
> contact Lindsay Calvert at gilman at iie.org  or (713) 621-6300, ext 25.
> 
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