Important Message from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board About New Guidelines for Applicants

Important Message About New Guidelines for Applicants

In an effort to broaden the participation of U.S. scholars in the Fulbright Program, the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board* has revised its policies regarding the eligibility of U.S. scholars who have previously held Fulbright awards under the Student, Scholar and Teacher Programs.

As always, preference will be given to candidates who have not had a previous Fulbright award. Effective for the 2007 competition, recipients of a core Fulbright Senior Scholar award (defined as longer than two months) are eligible to receive another traditional award five years after the date of completion of the previous award. The maximum number of core Fulbright Senior Scholar awards is two in a lifetime.

The five-year requirement between traditional awards does not apply to the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program or other short-term awards, which are defined as awards of under two months duration. Recipients of a short-term award are eligible to receive a traditional or a second short-term award two years after the completion of the preceding short-term award.
Recipients of a traditional award are eligible to receive a short-term award two years after the completion of the traditional award.

The maximum number of any combination of core Fulbright awards for Senior Scholars is limited to two with the following conditions and exceptions:

a.	that a Fulbright Student award does not count towards this lifetime limit;

b.	that a short-term award (two months or less), or a travel only award, shall count as ½ of a core Fulbright award for purposes of counting in a lifetime limit and shall not exceed two in a lifetime.

*Appointed by the President of the United States, the twelve-member Board establishes policies and procedures for the worldwide Fulbright Program.

Rule 624.2 “Previous Fulbright Grants” from the Policies of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board

Preference will be given to candidates who have not had previous Fulbright grants. However, recipients of a basic Fulbright grant are eligible to receive another basic Fulbright grant five years after the date of completion of the previous grant. (For serial grants, the five-year period begins at the end of the final grant in the series.) The five-year requirement between two basic grants does not apply to short-term grants, which are defined as grants of under two months duration. (See also Short-term Grants). Waiting periods with regard to short-term and basic grants are as follows.

a.	Recipients of a short-term grant are eligible to receive a basic grant two years after the date of completion of the preceding short-term grant.

b.	Recipients of a basic grant are eligible to receive a short-term grant two years after the date of completion of the preceding basic grant.

c.	Recipients of a short-term grant are eligible to receive another short-term grant two years after the completion of the preceding short-term grant.

Number of awards: The maximum number of any combination of basic Fulbright grants for Scholars and Teachers is limited to two with the following conditions and exceptions:

a.	that a Student grant does not count towards this lifetime limit;

b.	that a short-term grant (two months or less) shall count as ½ of a basic Fulbright grant for purposes of counting in a lifetime limit and shall not exceed two in a lifetime.

The full text of the new J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Policies incorporating all of the changes applicable to the Fulbright Scholar Program for 2007-08 may be found in Chapter 600: U.S. Lecturers and Research Scholars (.PDF).

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The Fulbright Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program and is supported by the people of the United States and partner countries around the world. For more information, visit fulbright.state.gov.

The Fulbright Scholar Program is administered by CIES, a division of the Institute of International Education.

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