Gilman Scholarship Overview: http://pxstudio.us/pdf/Gilman-Program-Overview.pdf
Gilman Scholarship Flyer: http://pxstudio.us/pdf/Gilman_FlyerFullPage_Fall-2018.pdf
Gilman Scholarship Outreach: http://pxstudio.us/document/Gilman-Outreach-Slides.pptx
Gilman Impact Statistics: http://pxstudio.us/pdf/Gilman-Impact-Statistics-AY16-17.pdf
Study Abroad Events – Fall 2018: http://pxstudio.us/pdf/study-abroad-events_fall-2019.pdf
The U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship is a grant program that enables students of limited financial means to study or intern abroad, thereby gaining skills critical to our national security and economic competitiveness.
The Gilman Scholarship Program is open to U.S. citizen undergraduate students who are receiving Federal Pell Grant funding at a two-year or four-year college or university to participate in study and intern abroad programs worldwide. Funding is up to $8,000 for undergraduate students with financial need.
http://www.iie.org/en/Programs/Gilman-Scholarship-Program#.WD9niZLoz0G
We would like to take this time to highlight funding available for Study Abroad students, through the Gilman Scholarship.
Gilman Scholarship Application Workshop:
Date: September 20, 2018
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: ESTAC 2.130
Eligibility:
• Citizen of the United States
• Undergraduate student in good academic standing
• Federal Pell Grant recipient
• Student in the process of applying to, or accepted for, a study abroad or internship program
• Student applying for a program in an eligible country, according to U.S. Department of State guidance
Gilman Scholarship Application Deadline:
Early Application Deadline: October 2, 2018
The application for study and intern abroad programs for Summer 2019 is now open! The student application deadline for the Gilman Scholarship is Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at 11:59 P.M. Central Standard Time (CST). If you have any questions about the application process please contact gilman@iie.org
Keep in mind that although the most challenging requirement for Gilman application is the 4-week abroad requirement, this can be satisfied combining two courses. The China trip will last 5 weeks in mainland China. It will help you to apply the scholarship, and to get $3,000-$8,000 Gilman Scholarship as student who joins China trip is required to take an art course (either a photography class or an internship class) and a Chinese language course in Shanghai University’s downtown campus.
In the Spring 2017, four UTRGV’s China trip students who joined China trip received Gilman Scholarship ($2,000 – $5,000) from the Department of State, Washington DC. In the Spring of 2018, two China trip students won $3,000 Gilman Scholarship in each. We hope that UTRGV students from our China trip team could receive more Gilman scholarships at this time. UTRGV IPP Office will be hosting a workshop for students in both Edinburg and Brownsville campus. We encourage you to participate this workshop. Should you have any questions, please contact the IPP office at lizette.leal01@utrgv.edu as Lizette will be the campus representative for Gilman.
China trip classes led by Prof. Ping Xu:
ARTS-4337 Digital Photography
ARTS-4391 Advertising Internship
CHIN-1101 Beginning Chinese I (A Shanghai University Course will be transferred back to UTRGV after the trip)
CHIN-1301 Intermediate Chinese (A Shanghai University Course will be transferred back to UTRGV after the trip)
If you are:
- a US citizen
- your GPA score above 3.4
- take both CHIN-1101 Chinese language class (in Shanghai University) and ARTS-4391 Internship class (in a world leading multinational advertising agency Shanghai branch) through our Study Abroad China trip, you will double your chance to win the Gilman scholarship ($3,000, $5,000, or $8,000).
If you take two UTRGV courses and one SHU language course:
- ARTS-4337 Digital Photography
- ARTS-4391 Advertising Internship
- Beginning Chinese (in Shanghai University),
you will double your chance to win multiple scholarships including the Gilman Scholarship and a couple of UTRGV scholarships.UTRGV China Trip Faculty Leader: Prof. Ping Xu ping.xu@utrgv.edu