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DEADLINE: Monday, February 17, 2025 @ 11:59 pm
EXTENDED DEADLINE: Monday, February 24, 2025 @ 11:59 pm
Application Requirements
- Completed on-line application form (including a one-page Statement of Purpose in PDF format describing how FLAS training fits into your academic program and your career plans).
- Updated, official S.U. transcript only if you are a continuing undergraduate or graduate student delivered to Matt Baxter, Regional Programs Manager-Asia at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, who serves as Syracuse University’s FLAS Coordinator. New, incoming graduate students do not need to submit a transcript. Note: Syracuse University official transcripts can be requested and submitted to the FLAS Coordinator via secure email transmission through your MySlice portal/Student Services tab.
- A completed FAFSA form. This is required of both graduate and undergraduate applicants for both Academic Year and Summer FLAS. You will be asked to submit your EFC number when you complete the application. The committee will consider financial need as well as academic merit when making funding decisions.
- Letters of recommendation: For undergraduate applicants, two (2) letters of recommendation—one from a language instructor with an appraisal of your language ability and one from a faculty member who can speak to your academic preparation—emailed from an institutional email address directly to Matt Baxter. For continuing graduate students, one (1) letter of recommendation from your graduate advisor, thesis or dissertation supervisor, or a faculty member who knows your work well emailed from an institutional email address directly to Matt Baxter. If you are a new, incoming graduate student, you do not need to provide a letter of recommendation.
- For Summer FLAS, you must be accepted an approved language program, which usually lasts around 8 weeks— such as the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Summer Language Program for study in India, the South Asian Studies Language Institute (SASLI), held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, or the South Asia Institute's (SAI) virtual courses through the University of Texas, Austin. Please see their websites for further details.
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ACADEMIC YEAR 2025-2026 APPLICATION
DEADLINE: Monday, February 17, 2025 @ 11:59 pm
EXTENDED DEADLINE: Monday, February 24, 2025 @ 11:59 pm
Application Requirements
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- Be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States;
- Have earned a baccalaureate or comparable degree before the fellowship begins OR be an undergraduate student with sufficient prior training to take an intermediate or advanced level of an uncommonly taught language;
- Show potential for high academic achievement based on such indicators such as grade point average, class ranking, or similar measures that the institution may determine;
- At the graduate level, be accepted for or enrolled in graduate level course work in a program that combines modern foreign language training with a focus on international or area studies either in an academic discipline or a professional program.
- Graduate students pursuing PhDs must have intermediate proficiency.
- Professional students wanting to take language courses at the introductory level will have their cases examined on a case-by case basis by the U.S. Department of Education.
- Undergraduate students with sufficient prior training to take an intermediate or advanced level of an uncommonly taught language are also eligible. Undergraduate and graduate students, including heritage students, can test into the intermediate level (speaking, basic reading and writing are required).
- Be in residence on campus in Syracuse for each semester of the fellowship;
- Agree to pursue full-time study in accordance with the university's requirements during the entire award period. Academic Year FLAS Fellows must: register for a minimum of one course per term in approved language instruction at the appropriate level AND take at least one related area studies course per term. Approved dissertation research must be maintained for the duration of the recipient’s fellowship tenure for PhD students/candidates; approved graduate course of study must be maintained for the duration of the recipient's fellowship tenure for masters/graduate professional degree students (MA, MS, MBA, JD, etc.).
- We expect Academic Year FLAS fellows to actively attend South Asia Center events during their fellowship year, during which time AY FLAS fellows should also feel free to use facilities at the Moynihan Institute.
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