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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,
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