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How many Boren Fellowships are awarded?
121 Boren Fellows
Top-Performing Institutions. In 2022, the national nominating panel selected 121 Boren Fellows and 208 Boren Scholars from 246 graduate and 458 undergraduate applications.
How much is the Boren Award?
Boren Scholarships provide up to $25,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad.
What is a Boren award?
What are the Boren Awards? The Boren Awards for International Study are, first and foremost, language scholarships: they provide funding for undergraduates and graduate students to obtain long-term linguistic and cultural immersion abroad.
Is Boren Scholarship competitive?
Boren Scholars and Fellows Receive non-competitive eligibility (NCE) for future employment. This is a special hiring authority granted by the U.S. government.
Is Boren prestigious?
Four students to study languages abroad with support from prestigious Boren Scholarship. Four Arizona State University students, including three from Barrett Honors College, have received the prestigious David L. Boren Scholarship to study foreign languages abroad in the 2019-2020 academic year.
Where do Boren Scholars work?
Boren Fellows represent a vital pool of highly motivated individuals who wish to work in the federal national security arena. Boren Fellows must make a commitment to work in the federal government for a minimum of one year.
Who is Boren?
Boren is the principal author of the legislation that created the National Security Education Program and the Boren Awards, the scholarships and fellowships that bear his name.
Who funds the Boren Fellowship?
the National Security Education Program (NSEP)
Boren Scholarships are funded by the National Security Education Program (NSEP), which focuses on geographic areas, languages and fields of study deemed critical to U.S. national security, broadly defined.
What is a Boren Scholarship?
Boren Scholarships provide up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests. Boren scholars represent a variety of academic backgrounds, but all are interested in studying less commonly taught languages.
How do I contact the Boren Awards?
Boren Awards staff will release new webinars on specific topics throughout the application cycle — watch as many as you can! If you have any questions specific to your application, contact us at [email protected] or call 1-800-618-NSEP (6737) during business hours (9 am to 5 pm Eastern). The national deadlines for the 2022 Boren Awards are:
When can I apply for the 2022 Boren Award?
Boren Awards funding may be applied to programs starting as early as June 4, 2022 or as late as March 1, 2023. Your campus representative may also set a campus deadline to provide support and feedback — please check to see if there is one and respect it!
What languages do the Boren Scholars and Fellows study?
Boren Scholars and Fellows study a wide range of critical languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, and Swahili. Boren Awards are available to students of all proficiency levels who are committed to enhancing their skills.