Overseas-Faculty Research Abroad (84.019)

 

Program

84.019 Overseas-Faculty Research Abroad

 

Federal Agency

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

 

Authorization

Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, as amended, Sections 102(b)(6) and 105(d); Public Law 87-256.

 

Program Number

84.019

 

Last Known Status

Active

 

Objectives

To help universities and colleges strengthen their language and area studies programs by enabling faculty members to conduct research abroad in order to improve their skills in languages and their knowledge of the cultures on which their academic interests focus.

 

Types of Assistance

Project Grants.

 

Uses and Use Restrictions

Generally, awards will not be available for projects focusing primarily on Western Europe or on countries where the United States has no diplomatic representation. Financial provisions include a stipend in lieu of salary; cost of air fare for award recipient only; baggage allowance; project allowance to purchase expendable materials; services and supplies; fees to foreign institutions; and local travel expenditures. Fellowships are adjusted for duplicating support.

 

Eligibility Requirements

Applicant Eligibility

Institutions of higher education may apply.

Beneficiary Eligibility

Those benefiting will: (1a) Be a citizen or national of the United States; (1b) be a permanent resident of the United States; or (1c) provide evidence from the Immigration and Naturalization Service that he or she is in the United States for other than a temporary purpose with the intention of becoming a citizen or permanent resident; (2) be employed by an institution of higher education; (3) have been engaged in teaching relevant to his or her foreign language or area specialization for the 2 years immediately preceding the date of the award; (4a) have proposed research relevant to a modern foreign language or area specialization that cannot be conducted in the United States, or for which a foreign country or region provides superior research facilities; (4b) contribute to the development or improvement of the study of modern foreign languages or area studies in those fields needed for a full understanding of the area, regions, or countries in which the modern foreign languages are commonly used; (4c) not be doing dissertation research for a Ph.D.; and (5) possess adequate skills in the language or languages necessary to successfully carry out the project.

Credentials/Documentation

This program is excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-87.

 

Application and Award Process

Preapplication Coordination

Eligible institutions will be responsible for accepting, screening, and forwarding through the Department of Education's Application Control Center to the International Education and Graduate Programs Service (IEGPS) International Education those individual applications that meet the institution's technical and academic criteria and the program's eligibility requirements. This program is excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-102. This program is excluded from coverage under E.O. 12372.

Application Procedure

Faculty members may address requests for general information to the Advanced Training and Research Team, International Education and Graduate Programs Service. Completed applications should be submitted directly to the faculty members employing institution, which will forward them to the Application Control Center. This program is excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-110.

Award Procedure

The IEGPS will make the initial selection and recommendation of fellowship recipients with the advice of a panel of academic specialists in modern foreign language and area studies and comments by U.S. embassies and binational commissions in the proposed countries of research. The selections are subject to review and final approval by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. The grant covering successful scholars is made to the institutions which employ the faculty members.

Deadlines

Generally the last week in October or the first week in November of the year preceding the year of research. Exact date is announced in the Federal Register. Contact the program office for more information.

 

Range of Approval/Disapproval Time

Appeals

Not applicable.

Renewals

Not applicable.

 

Assistance Considerations

Formula and Matching Requirements

None.

Length and Time Phasing of Assistance

From 3 to 12 months.

 

Post Assistance Requirements

Reports

Award recipient: final program report submitted through the grantee institution no later than 90 days after the termination date of the award. Institution: fiscal year report.

Audits

Fiscal records of institutions subject to the Department audit at any time within 5 years after close of the fiscal year in which expenditures are made.

Records

Records bearing on receipt and expenditure of grant funds must be made available for the Department inspection: (1) For 3 years after the close of the fiscal year in which expenditures are made if departmental audit has occurred by that time; (2) until audit or for 5 years following end of budget period in which grant expired, whichever is later; or (3) until resolution of outstanding audit questions.

 

Program Accomplishments

In fiscal year 2002, 29 fellowships were awarded.

 

Financial Information

Account Identification

91-0201-0-1-502.

Obligations

(Grants) FY 02 $1,421,000; FY 03 est $1,562,000; and FY 04 est $1,575,000.

Range and Average of Financial Assistance

In fiscal year 2002, the average new award was $53,000.

 

Regulations, Guidelines and Literature

Final Regulations published in Federal Register on December 19, 1983; 34 CFR 662.

 

Related Programs

19.400, Educational Exchange_Graduate Students; 19.401, Educational Exchange_University Lecturers (Professors) and Research Scholars; 84.015, National Resource Centers and Fellowships Program for Language and Area or Language and International Studies; 84.016, Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Programs; 84.017, International Research and Studies; 84.018, Overseas Seminars Abroad_Bilateral Projects; 84.021, Overseas_Group Projects Abroad; 84.022, Overseas_Doctoral Dissertation; 84.229, Language Resource Centers.

 

Information Contacts

Regional or Local Office

Not applicable.

Headquarters Office

Advanced Training and Research Team, International Education and Graduate Programs Service, Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202-5331. Contact: Eliza A. Washington. eliza.washington@ed.gov Telephone: (202) 502-7633.

Web Site Address

http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/HEP/iegps/fra.html

 

Examples of Funded Projects

The Effects of the Zimbabwe Revolution on the Southern African Regional System; Refugee Integration and Repatriation in Eastern Sudan; Women in Politics in Ecuador; Health Problems and the Accessibility and Utilization of Health Care in Guanacaste, Costa Rica; Worker Cooperatives in Japan and Culture of Cooperation; Technology and Nationalism in Late Colonial Netherlands East Indies; Proficiency-Based Business Arabic; Nations, Nationalism and Ethnicity: The Srilankan Model and its Transformations; Race, Ethnicity, Social Class and Power in the Hispanic Caribbean: The Historical Development and Contemporary Expression of Relations; The Americans in Prague: A History of US-Czechoslovak Relations, 1918-1993; Central and East European Countries and the European Union: Admission, Ternis, Impacts; Turkey's Encounter with Nationalism and Modernity's Race, Class, and Gender in Black Political Movements in South Africa, 1925- 1960: A Biography of Jose Mpama.

 

Criteria for Selecting Proposals

Evaluation Criteria: (1) Quality of proposed project (maximum 45 points); (2) qualifications of the beneficiary (maximum 45 points); and (3) priorities (maximum 10 points) if announced in the Notice of Closing Date.