{"id":2716,"date":"2012-02-07T15:18:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T20:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2012-02-07T15:20:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T20:20:25","slug":"2716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/2012\/02\/07\/2716\/","title":{"rendered":"Full-tuition stipend available through BU African Studies Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BU African Studies Center FLAS Application Deadline is\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Feb 15<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong>.\u00a0 This award offers full-tuition stipend for US Citizens &amp; permanent residents who take an African Language and African area studies course each semester.\u00a0 African Studies Center expects to make 2 or 3 awards for next academic year.<\/p>\n<p>Please find information about the FLAS awards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/forstudents\/financial-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0<a href=\"\/ghblast\/files\/2012\/02\/Graduate-Financial-Aid-Application.pdf\">Graduate-Financial-Aid-Application<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Director of the African Studies Center indicates:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI expect to have 2 or 3 FLAS fellowships available for new students next year, so while the competition will be spirited, it is certainly worth sending your students for us to consider. Our deadline for applications is February 15, and our financial aid committee expects to meet the first week in March.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cRecipients are required to take an African language course and an African area studies course (which can be in their home department) each semester that they receive the grant. When we offer a FLAS fellowship, we commit to funding a student for 4-5 years (on FLAS while they are taking courses full-time, on GRS funds subsequently). We will give preference to students interested in studying languages that we regularly teach &#8211; Amharic, Arabic, Hausa, Kiswahili, Wolof, isiXhosa, and isiZulu.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BU African Studies Center FLAS Application Deadline is\u00a0\u00a0Feb 15th.\u00a0 This award offers full-tuition stipend for US Citizens &amp; permanent residents who take an African Language and African area studies course each semester.\u00a0 African Studies Center expects to make 2 or 3 awards for next academic year. Please find information about the FLAS awards here. \u00a0Graduate-Financial-Aid-Application [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5554,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[733,84],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2720,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}