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From: "Amanda Katili-Niode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 6:05 AM
Subject: Ford Foundation Fellowships
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FORD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS
New York, N.Y. - The Ford Foundation today announced a major international
graduate fellowships program and a complementary undergraduate initiative to
help prepare a new generation of future leaders for the challenges of the
21st century.
The $330 million commitment features a new Ford Foundation International
Fellowships Program (IFP) that will provide $280 million over the next 10
years to support post-baccalaureate study for Fellows from Africa, the
Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Russia. The IFP, which will award 350
new graduate fellowships annually, assisting a total of 3,500 Fellows over
the next decade, represents the largest single grant in the Ford
Foundation's history.
An additional $50 million will support programs that seek to broaden
opportunities for undergraduate education in these regions. "Societies
around the world face the challenges of globalization, advancing technology,
peace and security, and the widening gap between rich and poor," said Susan
V. Berresford, president of the Ford Foundation.
"To tackle these challenges successfully we need people from all sectors of
society who can bring fresh vision, expert knowledge and strong leadership
skills. In many countries, however, the rapidly increasing need for advanced
education far exceeds available resources, which is why we feel this is the
right moment to commit to a large-scale fellowships program."
The graduate fellowships will support up to three years of master's or
doctoral study at universities anywhere in the world. Fellows will be
selected on the basis of their leadership potential, academic excellence and
commitment to community or national development. They may pursue their
studies in any fields that further the Ford Foundation's goals of
strengthening democratic values, reducing poverty and injustice, promoting
international cooperation and advancing human achievement.
"We have an extraordinary opportunity at this point in history to foster
freedom, democracy, human rights and overall better lives for millions of
people around the world. The Ford Foundation International Fellowships
Program will play a major role in training new leaders," said U.S. Senator
Richard G. Lugar (R-IN), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee and the author of a federal program to train new Russian CPA's and
MBA's at American universities.
The International Fellowships Program aims to broaden the talent pool of
future leaders by making a special effort to recruit exceptional individuals
who would otherwise lack opportunities for advanced study. This will include
women, people who belong to particular ethnic, racial or religious groups,
and those who live outside capital cities or in countries in conflict or
post-conflict situations.
"The Second Summit of the Americas, in 1998, recognized education as 'the
determining factor for the political, social, cultural, and economic
development of our peoples,'" said Francisco Rojas Aravena, director of the
Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Chile. "In Latin America, the
Ford Foundation's International Fellowships Program will make a decisive
contribution to achieving these goals and to the consolidation of
democracy."
The program builds on the Ford Foundation's longtime commitment to providing
educational opportunities to talented people around the world. Since the
1950s Ford has granted an estimated $365 million to enable some 30,000
individuals from more than 70 countries to pursue graduate education. Over
the years, Ford fellowship recipients have helped advance knowledge in the
social sciences, the humanities and the arts. Many former Ford Fellows have
become leaders in their countries' governments and in major institutions
around the world.
The new commitment of $330 million represents a special appropriation above
the Ford Foundation's annual level of grant making. Last year the foundation
made some 2,000 grants totaling close to $700 million. "In making this
commitment to international higher education, we can draw on our 50 years of
experience working overseas as well as the recent growth of our assets
resulting from the strong U.S economy," said Ms. Berresford.
"We thought it would be good to share our new wealth with people in
developing countries and particularly those from disadvantaged communities."
The International Fellowships Program will begin in Vietnam, Nigeria,
Senegal, Ghana, Chile, Peru, and Russia. During 2001-2002 the program will
expand to other countries and regions, including South Africa, Mozambique,
Kenya, China, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil, North
Africa, the Middle East and Central America. United States citizens are not
eligible, but Fellows may study at U.S. universities.
The program will be managed by national, regional and international
organizations working in close collaboration with a Secretariat based at the
Ford Foundation's headquarters in New York. These organizations will convene
panels of scholars, practitioners, and other experts to assess applications
and make the final selection. For the first phase of the program, these
"partner" organizations are: the Association of African Universities (West
Africa), the Center for Educational Exchange with Vietnam/American Council
of Learned Societies (Vietnam), the Latin American Faculty of Social
Sciences (Chile and Peru) and the Moscow office of the Institute of
International Education (Russia).
The Institute of International Education in New York will provide
centralized monitoring services for the program. The Ford Foundation is an
independent, nonprofit, nongovernmental grant making organization. For more
than a half century it has been a resource for innovative people and
institutions worldwide, guided by its goals to strengthen democratic values,
reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance
human achievement. With headquarters in New York, the foundation has offices
in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and Russia.
Further information about the foundation is available on its web site at
<http://www.fordfound.org/>.
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