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FULBRIGHT VISITING SPECIALISTS PROGRAM:
DIRECT ACCESS TO THE MUSLIM WORLD

The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the United
States Department of State announces the third competition for the
Fulbright Visiting Specialists Program: Direct Access to the Muslim
World, administered by the Council for International Exchange of
Scholars (CIES).  This program will enable American colleges,
universities and community colleges to enrich their international
programs and courses of study by providing opportunities for direct
access and intensive exposure to specialists from Muslim communities in
the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, and several countries in
Central Asia, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.  This Fulbright
program will promote knowledge of values and societies of the Muslim
world as a basis for mutual communication and understanding, and lay a
foundation for educational development and expanded institutional
exchanges between institutions in these regions and the United States.

Eligible U.S. Higher Educational Institutions
For calendar year 2005, the Fulbright Visiting Specialists Program:
Direct Access to the Muslim World will support up to 40 grants for
visits of between two and six weeks by scholars and professionals from
abroad to American higher educational institutions that desire to enrich
understanding and knowledge of Islamic societies and cultures.
Proposals will be accepted from liberal arts institutions,
minority-serving institutions and community colleges with limited or no
current programs on the Muslim world, as well as from established area
studies programs that could benefit from a specialist in a particular
subject.

Duties of Fulbright Visiting Specialists
Fulbright Visiting Specialists will have extensive teaching experience
in their home countries, will be mid-to-senior level
professionals/professors, will be familiar with communities and higher
education institutions in the United States and will be fluent in
English.  Their activities will engage institutions and communities to
promote dialogue, learning and mutual understanding and to develop
continuing courses, programs, exchange activities and relationships that
are sustainable after the Fulbright Visiting Specialist's departure.
They may present lectures or short courses, team-teach with American
colleagues, or assist in program and curriculum development in colleges
and universities and speak to community groups, service clubs, and
religious and school groups.  Participants may be from the disciplines
of arts, business, communications and journalism, education, humanities,
law, library science and social sciences.  Research projects or teaching
of languages will not be supported.

Proposals
Proposals from U.S. higher educational institutions to host a Fulbright
Visiting Specialist will be reviewed by external reviewers who are
primarily university professors with intimate knowledge of international
education.  Upon approval for funding, the U.S. higher educational
institution will be matched with a scholar approved by a Fulbright
office abroad.  Application materials will be made available online at
www.cies.org/Visiting_Specialists by August 16.  Proposals should
indicate the discipline of the person they wish to invite, but need not
name a particular individual.  Institutions that wish to name a former
Fulbrighter are invited to search the Fulbright Directory of Visiting
Scholars at http://www.cies.org/vs_scholars/vs_dir.htm.

Fulbright grants will include air travel, per diem and an honorarium.
Preferences are given to the institutions that include in-kind
contributions as part of their support of scholars, such as office
space, local travel, computer usage, guest faculty housing, and/or meal
services.

Programs for Fulbright Visiting Specialists will be carried out
throughout calendar year 2005.  Single institutions or consortia of
institutions may obtain proposal forms and instructions from the CIES
website, www.cies.org/Visiting_Specialists/.  Completed proposals must
be submitted via e-mail to [log in to unmask] by October 1, 2004.
Approved institutions will be notified by November 15.