Funding
Funding from the National Security Education Program (NSEP) and The Language Flagship allows The University of Texas Arabic Flagship to offer merit-based funding for scholars in the amount up to $4,500 per year. Additional funding is available for summer study of Arabic as well. Many AFP scholars are eligible for in-state tuition waivers and receive other merit based scholarships in addition to ours. We invite you to explore the entities below for additional funding opportunities.
Boren Scholarships
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 and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin American, and the Middle East.
NSEP
In December 1991, the President signed the National Security Education Act into law. The Act established the National Security Education Program, the National Security Education Board, and the National Security Education Trust Fund. Today, the National Security Education Program, under the guidance of the National Security Education Board, continues to carry out its mission to serve as a leader in developing the national capacity to educate United States citizens to:
- Understand foreign cultures
- Strengthen U.S. economic competitiveness
- Enhance international cooperation and security
Critical Language
Sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program will offer intensive summer language institutes overseas in eleven critical need foreign languages for summer 2009.
Fulbright
The Fulbright Program for US Students is sponsored by the US Department of State and is designed for recent BA/BS graduates, Master’s and Doctoral candidates and young professionals—including writers, journalists, artists musicians and those interested in law business and other professional fields. The program awards approximately 1,500 grants to US students to study, conduct research or assistant-teach overseas for one academic year.
AFP Resources
The Arabic Flagship Program continually focuses efforts on researching and collecting–as well as improving upon–existing resources in an effort to support our students. In doing so, we invite you to reference the wealth of useful information about our funders, partners and related programs at UT, as well as share source information for general learning materials including online dictionaries, dialect assistance, research sites and newspapers.
