Palms & Company Document

"Scholarship Program for students from the Commonwealth of Independent States (Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union)."

by

Dr. Pyotr Johannevich van de Waal-Palms

From: Palms & Company, Inc., <palms@PeterPalms.com>

Subject: Russian & Eurasian Awards Program

Russian and Eurasian Awards Program

With funding from the United States Information Agency, NAFSA will again administer the Russian & Eurasian Awards Program, providing supplementary grants of up to $10,000 to U.S. institutions on behalf of qualified students from Armenia, Azerbajian, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. The purpose of the program is to help build market economies and support democratic structures in the countries of the former Soviet Union.

The Russian & Eurasian Awards Program can provide up to $10,000 for student expenses; cost-sharing by the U.S. institution is expected, generally in the form of a tuition waiver.

Eligibility

• Students must be undergraduate juniors or senior or graduate students, admitted to an accredited U.S. institution.
• Eligible fields of study are: public administration, public policy, political science, urban planning, economics, business, marketing, law, education, journalism, social sciences, humanities (excluding the fine arts), library science, English teaching and computer science. The hard sciences, engineering and English as a second language are not eligible fields of study.
• Students receiving assistance under any other U.S. government funded programs are not eligible.

Students currently living in the U.S. or enrolled in the U.S. institutions are NOT eligible.

* Grant awards are contingent upon student obtaining and maintaining J-1 visa status, including the two-year home residency requirement.

U.S. institutions, not individual students, may apply. The deadline for U.S. institutions to apply is April 10, 1995. For Applications, please submit your name, title, address, telephone and fax numbers to:

REAP Staff

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