Cornell Arts & Sciences African Experience Travel Award

Arts and Sciences African Experience Travel Award offers as much as $2,500 towards journey bills for Cornell-run applications in Africa throughout the summer season and winter classes, in addition to the tutorial yr.

To assist promote pupil participation in lots of the worldwide academic experiences offered by Cornell, and enhance accessibility to applications not presently lined by Cornell monetary assist, the College of Arts and Sciences has established the African Experience Travel Award.  Undergraduate college students within the College of Arts & Sciences might apply for as much as $2,500 to cowl journey bills for Cornell-sponsored applications in Africa that provide both educational credit score or a structured internship expertise.  Eligible applications embrace, however usually are not restricted to:

• Office of Global Learning semester-long applications in Africa
• Cornell Continuing Education and Summer session programs taught in Africa
• Internationalizing the Cornell Curriculum (ICC) programs with an African journey element
• Cornell Global Health Field Experience alternatives in Africa (Tanzania, Zambia, Weill-Bugando)
• Institute for African Development Summer Internships

Eligibility and Requirements

• Must be an undergraduate pupil within the College of Arts & Sciences, in good educational standing (12 educational credit accomplished and a minimum of a 2.0 GPA)
• Must be enrolled in a Cornell class or accepted right into a Cornell program that features journey to Africa as a element (present documentation)
• Must submit documentation of estimated journey bills for program.
• Must enroll on the travel registry. (Be conscious that approval for journey to an ITART nation can take 3-4 weeks.)

Application is due by the final day of exams every semester.  You might apply for the journey award earlier than you may have been formally accepted to this system of your alternative, and shall be notified of the quantity awarded.  Formal proof of acceptance is required and any bursar holds should be cleared earlier than funds shall be launched. Please handle any questions in regards to the utility to Advising Dean Catherine Ramirez Foss at [email protected]

The College of Arts and Sciences helps pupil studying and engagement alternatives that present a larger understanding of the world’s peoples, cultures, economies and environments, and prepares graduates to work throughout borders to deal with the advanced challenges of worldwide citizenship within the twenty first century.