UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 17, Page 8
January 19, 1995
International Opportunities
- TEACHERS FOR AFRICA PROGRAM (1/19-1)- The International Foundation
for Education and Self-Help (IFESH) invites applications from
teachers, professors and school administrators who wish to spend one
academic year in African countries helping to improve educational
systems. Over the next six years, hundreds of American teacher
volunteers will be recruited and placed in African schools,
colleges, universities and government educational agencies. The
participants must commit themselves, upon returning to their home
communities, to help increase the understanding of issues affecting
Africa by offering workshops, seminars and lectures in schools,
churches and other community facilities, as well as preparing
articles for the local media and other publications. Assignments for
the teachers may include teacher training, classroom teaching, in-
service workshops, demonstrative teaching, administrative
management, developing teaching modules, curriculum development and
policy development. IFESH will underwrite the costs for placement,
pre-departure expenses, pre-departure orientation, in-country
orientation, round-trip transportation to country of placement,
health insurance for one academic year and an average stipend of
$800 per month while in Africa. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or
permanent residents of the U.S.; have a college degree (graduate
preferred); have at least five years' experience as a teacher,
professor or administrator; and have evidence of good health.
Applicants must be proficient in French to work in French-speaking
countries. Professors, teachers, graduate students and retirees with
teaching experiences in the sciences, computer science, mathematics,
education, engineering, medicine, agriculture, social sciences,
health sciences and humanities are invited to apply. The next group
of teachers is scheduled to depart in August. Deadline is Feb. 28.
For information, contact Teachers or Africa Program, International
Foundation for Education and Self-Help, 5040 East Shea Blvd., #260,
Phoenix, AZ 85254-4610.
- EASTERN EUROPEAN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) FELLOWS PROGRAM
(1/19-2)- This program provides funding for individuals who wish to
teach English as a foreign language in Eastern Europe. Minimum
qualifications are U.S. citizenship; a master's degree in teaching
English as a foreign language, applied linguistics or a closely
related field; and experience in teacher training, preferably
overseas. Participants receive a basic living stipend of $20,000, a
cost-of-living allowance of up to $10,000, medical/ hospital
coverage and round-trip airfare to their post overseas. The 12-month
program begins in August. Selected fellows work with local EFL
teachers in a variety of countries in Eastern Europe. Fellows will
train local teachers of English or teach English for Specific
Purposes (ESP) to professionals. They will prepare and present
weekly training sessions on such topics as teaching concepts and
methods specific to EFL, textbook analysis, curriculum development,
testing and ESP. In addition, they may work with the U.S.
Information Agency and embassy staff in giving in-service seminars
to host country teacher trainers, in aiding the introduction of
supplementary American teaching materials and in other related
activities. Deadline is April of each year. For more information,
contact: Council on International Educational Exchange, Professional
and Continuing Education Programs, 205 East 42nd St., New York, NY
10017; telephone (212)661-1414, ext. 1209; fax (212)972-3231.
- COLLABORATION IN BASIC SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (COBASE) PROGRAM
(1/19-4)- This program supports American specialists who wish to
visit colleagues in Central/Eastern Europe (CEE) or the former
Soviet Union (FSU) to prepare a collaborative research proposal in
the basic sciences and engineering for submission to the National
Science Foundation or other funding organizations. American
specialists who possess or will possess a Ph.D. or equivalent
research experience are invited to apply. They must be U.S.
citizens. Specialists who have received the Ph.D within the last six
years are especially encouraged to apply. Grants for the development
of short-range projects in the basic sciences or engineering range
from $2,000 to $2,200. Grants for long-term grants range from $3,600
to $12,000. Short-term project development grants provide support
for two weeks. Support for recipients of long-term grants ranges
from one to six months. Applications may be submitted in February,
June or December of each year. For more information, contact
National Academy of Sciences, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia,
2101 Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20418; telephone
(202)334-3680; fax (202)334-2615; e-mail: OCEE@nas.edu.
- GRANTS FOR COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES (1/19-5)-This program
encourages the development of individual and institutional
collaboration and exchanges between Americans and their counterparts
in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe or the Mongolian People's
Republic. Applicants must be U.S. citizens who have the Ph.D. or
equivalent professional doctoral degree and need support to travel
abroad to engage in collaborative humanities or social sciences
research with counterparts in the above mentioned areas of the
world. Grant recipients may receive full or partial provision for
round-trip airfare and stipend support of $75 per day for up to two
weeks. Deadlines are in September, January and May of each year. For
more information, contact International Research and Exchanges
Board, 1616 H St., N.W., Washington, DC 20006; telephone (202)628-
8188; fax (202) 628-8189.
- EAST EUROPEAN LANGUAGE TRAINING GRANTS (1/19-6)-This program
provides financial assistance to graduate students and
postdoctorates interested in studying an East European language
during the summer. Eligible to apply are graduate students and
postdoctoral scholars in the United States who are interested in
pursuing the first- or second-year of an East European language
(except the languages of the former Soviet Union). The program is
intended to support training for students and scholars who cannot
receive such instruction at their home institution. The grant is
$2,500 and, in special cases, tutorial instruction during the
academic year may be supported. The program lasts for the summer
months only. Deadline is February of each year. For more
information, contact American Council of Learned Societies, 228 East
45th St., New York, NY 10017-3398; telephone (212) 697-1505; fax
(212) 949-8058.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (SSRC) FELLOWSHIPS: For further
information and/or application materials on programs listed below,
contact Fellowships, name of the program, Social Science Research
Council, 605 Third Ave., New York, NY 10158; telephone (212)661-
0280.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GRANTS (1/19-7): This competition is
designed to support meetings, workshops and pilot projects
devoted to initiatives and innovation in the theories, methods
and approaches applied to the study of the former Soviet Union or
to pre-Soviet periods in a manner that informs the foundation of
knowledge about the successor states of the former Soviet Union.
Particular consideration will be given to proposals containing
some or all of the following elements: interdisciplinary and
comparative study; nontraditional disciplinary approaches;
training and retraining in methodology; participation of
predoctoral students in proposed projects; and collaborative
research. The maximum grant awarded is $7,500. Applications for
matching funds are welcome, but no institutional overhead will be
provided. At least one of the principal investigators submitting
a proposal must be a U.S. citizen. Deadline is March 1.
FACULTY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RETRAINING GRANTS (1/19-
8)-This program is designed to address the implications of the
collapse of the Soviet Union on the study, analysis and teaching
of social, economic and political processes now under way in the
successor states. It is also intended to aid in reassessing the
effects of the Soviet and imperial experiences on non-Russian
areas of the former Soviet Union. The program is not designed to
provide direct support of research, nor to support training
outside the United States. Awards up to $7,500 will be provided
for formal courses of instruction at appropriate educational
institutions in the United States designed to assist the
applicant in acquiring: additional language capability in Russian
or a language of a successor state of the Soviet Union;
additional competence in quantitative and/or other research
methodologies; and skills in comparative and nontraditional
disciplinary approaches. Postdoctoral scholars who are U.S.
citizens and have completed their dissertations prior to 1989 are
eligible. Deadline is March 1.