Information Session for Gilman/Freeman-ASIA Scholarships
Ms. Nasha Lewis from the Education Abroad office and Mr. Jeff Wing, National Scholarship Coordinator, will hold an information session regarding the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship and the Freeman-ASIA Scholarship on September 10 in the Student Commons (VA room D) from 11a- 12p.
The Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship was established to provide scholarships for study abroad to undergraduate students who are under-represented in education abroad. Scholarship recipients can receive up to $5,000 to study in one country for up to one academic year. Candidates for the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship must be U.S citizens in good academic standing and be receiving a Federal Pell Grant at the time of application. An additional $3,000 Critical Need Language Supplement may be available to students who are interested in studying one of the critical need languages while abroad. Critical Need Languages include:
Arabic (all dialects)
Chinese (all dialects)
Turkic (Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Kyrgz, Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek)
Persian (Farsi, Dari, Kurdish, Pashto, Tajiki)
Indic (Hindi, Urdu, Nepali, Sinhala, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, Sindhi)
Korean
Russian
The goal of the Freeman-ASIA scholarship is to increase the number of U.S. undergraduates studying in East and Southeast Asia. Scholarship recipients can receive up to $7,000 to study for one academic year. Candidates must be in good academic standing and a U.S citizen. Financial need is only one of many criteria used in selecting recipients.
If it is not possible for interested students to attend this session, they should contact the Education Abroad office at abroad@vcu.edu or 827-7782 or contact Mr. Wing directly at jawing@vcu.edu or 828-1803.
