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TITLE:International Teacher Education Program
SPONSOR_LIST: Alpha Delta Kappa, the International Honorary Sorority for Women Educators
SPONSOR_TYPE: Other Nonprofit
DEADLINE: January 1, 2010
DEADLINENOTE: Applications must be received by the deadline.
AMOUNT: $10,000
AMOUNT_NOTE: Each student is responsible for her own travel and housing expenses.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must
- be single women with no dependents and maintain that status throughout the scholarship period to retain the scholarship;
- be at least 20 years of age and not more than 35 years of age at the time of the application deadline of January 1, in the year study is to begin;
- be non-U.S. citizens living outside of the United States and must maintain that residency status from the time of application to the awarding of the scholarship;
- rank academically in the top 25 percent of their class;
- have well-rounded personalities and display strong leadership qualities;
- display a genuine interest in the promotion of better world understanding through education;
- have the ability and the willingness to adapt readily to new situations;
- have completed at least one year of college or have received an undergraduate degree (doctoral study is beyond the scope of this program); and
- plan to enter the teaching profession or be engaged in the teaching profession.
Each recipient is required to carry sufficient credit hours to qualify as a full-time student.
Members of Alpha Delta Kappa are not eligible for International Teacher Education Scholarships.
CITIZENSHIP: Africa; Asia; Bermuda; Canada; Caribbean; Central America; Europe; Mexico; Oceania; South America
ACTIVITY LOCATION: United States
REQUIREMENTS: Graduate Student; Women; Undergraduate Student
ABSTRACT: Alpha Delta Kappa, International Honorary Sorority for Women Educators, offers scholarships through its International Teacher Education Program to provide female foreign undergraduate and graduate students with the following opportunities: (1) to study in American universities and colleges; (2) to learn about the philosophy of education, methods, and materials of instruction in the United States; (3) to observe democracy in action; and (4) to share their experiences with people both in the United States and abroad. The purpose of this scholarship program is to promote better worldwide understanding through the field of education and to focus attention on the precepts that are the foundation of Alpha Delta Kappa.
URL: http://www.alphadeltakappa.org/ITE.html
KEYWORDS: Adult and Continuing Education; Career Education and Planning; Teacher Education
FUNDING_TYPE: Training, Scholarship, or Fellowship
TITLE: Dissertation Grants Program
SPONSOR_LIST: American Educational Research Association (AERA)
SPONSOR_TYPE: Professional Society or Association
DEADLINE: January 4; February 22; August 29
DEADLINENOTE: Proposals for Dissertation Grants will be reviewed three times a year, with funding decisions made within a month of the review date. Upcoming deadlines for proposals are - - early January, to be reviewed in February;
- late February, to be reviewed in March; and
- late August, to be reviewed in September
UPPER_AMOUNT: $15,000
AMOUNT_NOTE: Awards for Dissertation Grants are up to $15,000 for one-year projects. In accordance with AERA's agreement with the funding agencies, institutions may not charge indirect costs on these awards.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be advanced doctoral students. Applicants may be U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or non-U.S. citizens. Underrepresented minority researchers are strongly encouraged to apply.
No researcher may have AERA Grants Program funding for separate awards (grants or fellowships) that overlaps. An individual researcher may receive no more than two postdoctoral awards through the AERA Grants Program (i.e., research grant, postdoctoral fellowship, research fellowship, AERA fellowship). Dissertation Grants and participation in the Statistics Institute do not count in the maximum award limit.
CITIZENSHIP: Unrestricted
ACTIVITY LOCATION: United States
REQUIREMENTS: Graduate Student
ABSTRACT: With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the Institute of Education Sciences, the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Grants Program announces its Dissertation Grants Program. The program's goals are (1) to stimulate research on U.S. education policy- and practice-related issues using NCES and NSF data sets; (2) to improve the educational research community's firsthand knowledge of the range of data available at the two agencies and how to use them; and (3) to increase the number of educational researchers using the data sets. AERA invites education policy- and practice-related dissertation proposals using NCES, NSF, and other national data bases. Dissertation Grants are intended to support advanced doctoral students while writing the doctoral dissertation. Applications are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, such as but not limited to, education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics. Dissertation topics may cover a wide range of policy- or practice-related issues that include but are not limited to: teachers and teaching, including supply, quality, and demand; policies and practices related to student achievement and assessment; policies and practices that influence student and parental attitudes; contextual factors (individual, curricular, and school-related) in education; educational participation and persistence (kindergarten through career entry); at-risk students; early childhood education; U.S. education in an international context; school finance; materials (curriculum) development, research and informal science education; undergraduate science, engineering, and mathematics education; the supply (pipeline) of students taking mathematics and science courses; the quality of educational institutions; and methodological studies. Researchers must include the analysis of data from at least one NSF or NCES data set in the dissertation. Additional large-scale nationally representative data sets may be used in conjunction with the obligatory NSF or NCES data set. If international data sets are used, the study must include U.S. education.\\Successful grantees may consult with NCES or NSF staff regarding their proposed research projects and the handling of NCES, NSF, and other federal agency data sets pertinent to their projects. Dissertation grantees' final reports may either be an article of a quality and in a format suitable for publication in a scholarly journal, or a copy of the dissertation.
URL: http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/diss_grants/DGFly.html
KEYWORDS: Academic Achievement; Curriculum Development; Early Childhood or Preschool Education; Education; Educational Administration and Policy; Educational Evaluation or Assessment; Educational Finance; Educational Improvement; Educational Planning or Policy; Educational Research; Elementary or Secondary Education; Engineering Education; Higher Education; Mathematics Education; Middle School Education; Parent Involvement; Science Education; Teacher Attitude; Teacher Education
FUNDING_TYPE: Dissertation or Thesis
TITLE: ASHE/Lumina Foundation Fellowship Program
SPONSOR_LIST: Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
SPONSOR_TYPE: Professional Society or Association
DEADLINE: will not be offering the fellowship for 2009-2010
DEADLINENOTE: A deadline for the next cycle has not been confirmed. All applications must be postmarked by the deadline.
AMOUNT_NOTE: The award amount is unspecified. Eight to 10 one-year dissertation fellowships will be awarded per year for a three-year period. The fellowships can be used to support costs of supplying data, dissemination of project results, travel, tuition, and salary for the fellows. Participating universities are encouraged but not required to pay for the tuition of ASHE/Lumina Foundation Fellows (provide tuition remission) during the one-year fellowship period.Recipients will be expected to attend the ASHE annual meeting and an ASHE/Lumina Fellows Pre-Conference Seminar. Travel expenses up to $750 for new fellows to attend the pre-conference seminar and ASHE annual meeting will be provided as part of the ASHE/Lumina Foundation Fellowship Program. To facilitate the participation of the immediate past class of Fellows, travel expenses up to $500 per person will be available for participation in the Pre-Conference Seminar.\\Recipients will be expected to attend a Summer Colloquium. The fellowship program pays expenses for travel and the colloquium. The purpose of this colloquium is to bring together the fellows, mentors, past fellows, and Advisory Committee with Lumina Foundation personnel, policy makers, and others who have a stake in the work of the fellows. Fellows selected will attend the Summer Colloquium and may be invited to future colloquia.
ELIGIBILITY: Doctoral students affiliated with any accredited doctoral program may submit a proposal. Students in doctoral programs outside the United States may apply if their study is about student access and success in the United States. Applicants for the fellowship must have completed their course work, successfully passed required qualifying examinations, and have their dissertation proposals accepted by their institutions by early May.
Candidates who were not previously named as ASHE/Lumina Foundation Fellows may reapply in forthcoming years.
CITIZENSHIP: Unrestricted
ACTIVITY LOCATION: Unrestricted
REQUIREMENTS: Graduate Student
ABSTRACT: The Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)/Lumina Foundation Fellowship Program offers fellowships to support dissertation research on the broad topics of financial aid, student retention and success, and adult learners and learning. The key objective of this initiative is to promote innovative scholarship by creating an intergenerational community of scholars who will examine social, institutional, and policy barriers to opportunity and student success. The goal of the program is the development of new research questions, methodologies, and frameworks for the study of access and success that go beyond what is already known about critical topics related to, for example, college choice, financial aid, and student retention. The dissertation fellowships are available to students in higher education, economics, sociology, and other fields to support up to one year of activity that will be conducted through the students' home universities. A critical component of the fellowship program is professional development and mentoring of fellows. To that end, fellows are assigned an established scholar as a mentor in the program, participate in an online community of scholars, and come together twice during the fellowship year - during an ASHE pre-conference session in November and in a summer colloquium at the end of the fellowship year - to participate in an intergenerational group dedicated to promoting innovative scholarship on student access and success. Also, recipients, past recipients, mentors, and program faculty will have the opportunity to participate in an online community of ASHE/Lumina scholars that is designed to facilitate communication and resource sharing opportunities among scholars. In addition to the Mentor Program, Pre-Conference Seminar, Online Community of Scholars, and Summer Education Policy Colloquium, the ASHE/Lumina Fellowship Program includes a publication and dissemination plan to facilitate getting the research of fellows into the hands of policy makers and others concerned with research on student access and success. Working with the Advisory Committee and Fellowship Program Faculty, fellows may have opportunities for their work to be published in a series of policy briefs and critical issues essays and featured on an ASHE/Lumina Higher Education Policy website.
URL: http://www.ashe.ws/aboutfellowship.htm
KEYWORDS: Educational Planning or Policy; Higher Education
FUNDING_TYPE: Training, Scholarship, or Fellowship; Dissertation or Thesis
TITLE: Adolescent Literacy Predoctoral Fellowship
SPONSOR_LIST: National Academy of Education
SPONSOR_TYPE: Academic Institution
DEADLINE: TBD
DEADLINENOTE: A deadline for the next cycle has not been confirmed
AMOUNT: $25,000
AMOUNT_NOTE: Fellows will receive a stipend of $25,000, to be disbursed over a period of up to two years, to support finalizing the dissertation proposal and collecting data. Twenty fellows will be accepted for the two-year fellowships.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants should meet the following eligibility requirements:
1. Be a candidate for the doctoral degree at a graduate school within the United States
2. Have demonstrated interest in and acquired knowledge of adolescent literacy through coursework, participation in research, teaching, and/or other substantive undertakings; relevant coursework includes, for example, courses in literacy development, literacy disorders, secondary school literacy, adolescent literature, etc.
3. Have demonstrated knowledge of and sensitivity to the characteristics of the populations and the life circumstances of the segments of the adolescent population where the problem of literacy development is most prevalent 4. Have been prepared or are being prepared through coursework and training to conduct research focusing on educational effectiveness, utilizing rigorous research methods that are appropriate to the conceptual issues being investigated, including experimental and quasi-experimental designs, longitudinal analyses, secondary analyses of large datasets, and descriptive analyses In awarding fellowships, preference will be given to applicants who, at the time of application, have completed required course work and any qualifying exams or papers. The academy does not encourage students just starting their doctoral study coursework to apply.
CITIZENSHIP: Unspecified
ACTIVITY LOCATION: United States
REQUIREMENTS: Graduate Student
ABSTRACT: This program supports doctoral research aimed at improving literacy outcomes for middle and secondary school students. Fellows will also participate in ongoing training activities to interact with and learn from leading researchers in the field of adolescent literacy and in activities that promote building a community of scholars.
URL: http://www.naeducation.org/2008%20Adolescent_Literacy_Predoctoral_Fellows.html#TopOfPage
KEYWORDS: Educational Improvement; Educational Research; Literacy
FUNDING_TYPE: Training, Scholarship, or Fellowship; Dissertation or Thesis
TITLE: Teacher Education Scholarship Program
SPONSOR_LIST: Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC)
SPONSOR_TYPE: Academic Institution
DEADLINE: October 23, 2009
DEADLINENOTE: Anticipated deadline. A deadline for the next cycle has not been confirmed.
UPPER_AMOUNT: $1,000
AMOUNT_NOTE: Awards are one-year, non-renewable $1,000 stipends. The number of awards is contingent on available funding.
ELIGIBILITY: The scholarship program is open to undergraduate or master's of education degree program students who are U.S. citizens and will be enrolled in a full-time (minimum of 12 credit hours) program of study when they actually receive the award. Students may apply during their senior year of high school or sophomore year of community college. The award is contingent on matriculation to a Virginia Space Grant university and entrance into a teacher certification program.
Students eligible for support must be in a track that would qualify them to teach in a pre-college setting. Priority will be given to those majoring in technology education, mathematics or science, particularly earth/space/environmental science. Successful scholarship recipients should have grade point averages of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.
CITIZENSHIP: United States
ACTIVITY LOCATION: Virginia
REQUIREMENTS: Graduate Student; Undergraduate Student
ABSTRACT: A major goal of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) is to develop programs that help improve the science, mathematics and technology education of all students. This goal is in keeping with established educational reform initiatives as well as the national Space Grant goals of ensuring the technical, scientific, and research workforce that America needs to stay competitive in the world marketplace. To encourage talented individuals to pursue studies leading to teaching certification in the sciences, mathematics, and technology education, the VSGC established the Teacher Education Scholarship program to complement its existing science and engineering-based scholarships and fellowships.\\The VSGC is a coalition of five Virginia Space Grant colleges and universities - College of William and Mary, Hampton University, Old Dominion University, University of Virginia, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - the Virginia Community College System, NASA, state educational agencies, and other organizations representing diverse aerospace education and research interests.
URL: http://www.vsgc.odu.edu/Menu3_1_1.htm
KEYWORDS: Engineering Education; Mathematics Education; Science Education
FUNDING_TYPE: Training, Scholarship, or Fellowship |