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Travel-Study Funding
The Center for Global Studies and International Education supports travel-study and study-abroad through various scholarship awards. Working with the Travel-Study Scholarship Committee, it administers the substantial scholarship fund generated by the SGA Travel-Study Fee. This fund offers students maximum awards of $500 for participating in approved travel-study and study-abroad programs.
See Guidelines and Application for information on how to apply for these awards.
Financial Aid Information
The following types of aid are awarded by the Financial Aid Office:
Pell Grant - undergraduates
Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant - undergraduates
Perkins Loan - undergraduates, graduates
Direct Stafford Loan - undergraduates, graduates
Direct Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students (PLUS) - undergraduates
Each student should check with the Financial Aid Office to verify anticipated disbursement dates . In most cases, some or all of the financial aid award can be released prior to departure. Financial aid will be credited to the students' account and applied to program charges. If funds in excess of what is due are received, a refund check will be issued to the student.
Students who wish to apply for financial aid for the academic year following study- abroad may be required to apply from overseas. Many Spring participants should be able to file before they leave the country, but all full-year participants must file by mail from abroad after 1 January.
Outside Scholarships
In addition to institutional financial aid, there are some outside scholarship opportunities for study-abroad. A few which may be of interest to UTM students include the following:
Bowman Travel Grants: This award is available for any student participating in a Council program to Central or South America, the Caribbean, Asia, or Africa. For more information on Council programs,
please visit the Office of Study Abroad.
Robert B. Bailey III Minority Student Scholarships: Also administered by Council, this award is available for minority students participating in a Council program in any region of the world.
Association of Teachers of Japanese Bridging Scholarships: This award is available for students majoring in any field who are studying for a semester or a year in Japan, and would be particularly appropriate for Old Dominion students participating in the exchange program to Kansai Gaidai. The scholarship consists of a round-trip ticket to Japan and a monthly stipend of approximately $330.
Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarships : These scholarships are avaiable to upper-level students who are directly enrolling in a foreign university for one year of study.
National Security Education Program (NSEP) : Scholarship money is available to students studying abroad in areas which pertain to national security interests.
Fulbright Fellowships for graduating seniors and graduate students supports study and research in many fields of study in most regions of the world. Campus deadline for 2005 - 2006 is October 5, 2004.
For more information consult the Fulbright website at http://www.iie.org/fulbright for up-to-date information.
Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program is a new federal government program providing scholarships for U.S. undergraduate students receiving federal financial aid for university study. The Gilman Awards will provide up to $5,000 for U.S. citizens and U.S. nationals who are undergraduate students to pursue overseas study abroad opportunities worldwide. See their website for details and application procedures
http://www.iie.org/gilman .
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