Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Deadline: October 26, 2024
URL: PD Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Description:
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships support “New Americans,” i.e., green card holders, naturalized citizens, DACA recipients, asylees, refugees, or the children of immigrants, in any field and in any advanced degree-granting full-time program in the United States. The goal is to honor the contributions of immigrants and children of immigrants to the United States.
The Soros Fellowships’ rigorous selection process is focused on identifying the most promising New Americans who are poised to make significant contributions to the nation through their work. In addition, the selection team looks for a commitment to the United States’ fundamental principles and ideals. Fellowships offer two years of support.
The program uses three primary criteria for the selection of Fellows:
- The candidate has demonstrated creativity, originality, and initiative in one or more aspects of her/his life.
- The candidate has demonstrated a commitment to and capacity for accomplishment that has required drive and sustained effort.
- The candidate has demonstrated a commitment to the values expressed in the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This would include, but not be limited to, support of human rights and the rule of law, opposition to unwarranted encroachment on personal liberty, and advancing the responsibilities of citizenship in a free society.
Eligibility:
Applicants must:
- Have “New American” status, as defined by the Soros program as follows:
- If born abroad: Hold a green card, be a naturalized citizen, be a US citizen through adoption, have refugee or asylee status, or have graduated from high school and college in the US (this includes current and past DACA recipients).
- If born in the US: Be the child of immigrants (both parents were born abroad as non-US citizens).
- If raised by only one of your birth parents, the following must be true: 1) The parent who raised you must have been born abroad as a non-US citizen and 2) your second birth parent was not part of your life growing up and you have no contact with them.
- Not have reached or passed their 31st birthday as of the application deadline. There is no minimum age requirement.
- Be college seniors, have graduated with a bachelor’s degree, or be enrolled in the first or second year of a graduate program.
- Be enrolled full-time during the fellowship period.
- Ph.D. students who have completed two or more years of graduate school while obtaining a master’s degree are eligible only if they had to apply separately for their Ph.D. program. If they received the master’s degree while enrolled in a doctoral program, they are not eligible.
- Individuals can re-apply so long as they are still eligible.
- The fellowships are open to those who already have a graduate degree.
- Online programs, including hybrid programs, are eligible for Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships funding (see website for details).
- Ineligible programs: Executive graduate programs, joint bachelors/master’s programs in which both degrees are awarded simultaneously, certificate programs, post-baccalaureate programs, graduate programs that are not in the United States, and graduate programs that are not fully accredited.
Award amount:
- $25,000 stipend per year.
- Up to $20,000 for tuition per year
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