Hi folks,
I got the following from Sunugalnet. Please check out the Ford Foundation Web
site (http://www.fordfound.org) for more info.
Katim
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Subject: Fellowships for Senegalese Graduate Students
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:10:41 -0800
From: Karen Fung <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
There is an article in the Nov. 29, 2000 New York Times about new Ford
Foundation grants for graduate students (from Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria,
other countries)
I believe you need to register to read the entire NYT article. But you can
get full information on the Ford Foudnation site.
http://www.fordfound.org/
The NYT article is under copyright so I can't copy the entire piece but
below are some excerpts.
$330 Million in Ford Grants Will Aid Foreign Students
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/national/29FORD.html
November 29, 2000
By TAMAR LEWIN
In its largest grant ever, the Ford Foundation will announce today a 10-
year $330 million fellowship program to support graduate education for
hundreds of disadvantaged college graduates in 20 countries.
Ford's International Fellowship Program, which will pay for up to three
years of graduate study anywhere in the world, will begin with about 100
students from Chile, Ghana, Nigeria, Peru, Russia, Senegal and Vietnam next
year, and then gradually expand to about 350 fellows in 20 countries where
the Ford Foundation has a presence............
While academic performance will be a criterion for selection, committees in
each country will also base their choices on leadership potential and
commitment to community service and social justice.
Joan Dassin, director of the program, said, "A lot of the people we want to
reach may not have had typical careers and may be older, particularly women
who took time off to have a family."
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Karen Fung, Africa Collection, Hoover Library, Stanford University,
Stanford, CA 94305
Phone 650-725-3505, [log in to unmask]
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Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources
http://library.stanford.edu/africa
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html
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