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Program Announcement 2012-2013
The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce the 2012-2013 Junior Faculty Development Program for citizens of Afghanistan to participate in a two-month professional development program in the United States.
The Junior Faculty Development Program is a U.S. Government sponsored program that was initiated in January 2011. The program is designed to enhance and broaden the professional skill sets of Afghan junior faculty in various fields of study; to provide insight into the American system of higher education; and to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of Afghanistan.
Participants will be recruited through a merit-based, open competition and chosen based upon their leadership potential, interest in and intent to continue teaching at the university level, openness to new cultures and ideas, potential to implement their learning in their university environments, and potential to promote mutual understanding between the United States and Afghanistan.
Applicants must be citizens of Afghanistan currently employed full-time as a junior level faculty member (defined as faculty with a bachelor’s degree but no further education) at a public or private Afghan university.
Applicants should have a sufficient level of English to enable them to successfully engage in the classroom environment in the U.S. Many successful applicants earn a score of 550 or higher on the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). English language instruction will be provided during the program to strengthen academic vocabulary and skills across all modalities – listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Strong preference will be given to applicants who have not had extensive recent experience in the U.S. Applicants currently living in the U.S. are ineligible for the program.
All grantees are expected to return to Afghanistan at the conclusion of their program to implement projects and ideas developed while in the U.S. Grantees will be eligible to apply for immediate subsequent rounds of the Fulbright programs (i.e. applicants returning in March 2012 are eligible to apply for the 2013-2014 Fulbright program).
All program costs will be included in the scholarship, including lodging, meals, supplemental health and accident benefits, a book and materials allowance, and travel costs to program location.
To access the PDF application file, click here. Please complete the paper application and send a scanned copy to KabulPASExchanges@state.gov by July 1, 2012 at 5 p.m. Kabul Time.
Detailed instructions on how to apply and submit the application can be found below.
Late applications will not be accepted.
Program Details – Junior Faculty Exchange Program
The Afghan Junior Faculty Development Program provides an intensive professional training program at a U.S. university for up to twenty junior faculty members from public and private Afghan universities. The program aims to enhance and broaden the professional skill sets of junior faculty in various fields of study. Alumni of this program will be well positioned to increase the academic quality in their courses, departments, faculties, and universities. Participants will also have the opportunity to develop language and professional skills to strengthen eligibility for graduate studies at international institutions. The program will take place from January to March 2013, with exact dates to be determined.
The two month program includes the following:
Activities and seminars during the program will focus on theoretical and practical topics such as teaching methodology, pedagogy, resources, and technology. Topics will include the following:
Participant Selection
We aim to select a total of twenty participants for a single program starting in January 2013. We hope to include both male and female participants in this year’s program. Please encourage your female colleagues to apply.
No Dependents
The fellowship is provided for the recipient only; dependents cannot be supported. Dependents of Junior Faculty Program participants are not permitted to accompany participants to the U.S. All Afghan participants must return to Afghanistan immediately following the completion of their academic program.
Deadline
The deadline for submitting applications is July 1, 2012.
How to Apply
STEP 1: Check requirements for submitting an application
The Junior Faculty Development Program is open to Afghan citizens living in Afghanistan, who have:
Email Arif Mujaddedi at the Embassy, KabulPasExchange@state.gov, with any questions you have about completing the application.
STEP 2: Review application instructions and guidelines
Guidelines:
Read and follow the specific instructions in the application form.
All materials must be submitted in English. If an academic transcript is not in English, include an accurate, certified translation in English.
Avoid using all capital letters on the application form or other documents. For example, for name and address, use an upper case letter for the first letter in a word and lower case letters for the rest of the word, as in Name: Ronald Smith.
Limit each response to no more than the text space or page limit indicated for application questions and attachments.
Proofread the entire application before submitting it. The application should be free of grammatical and spelling errors.
Often specific instructions for completing a question or item are provided in the application itself. Please read all instructions carefully. In addition, please review the following important information.
Item 1—Name: It is very important that you list your name exactly as it appears (or will appear) on your passport. Please use upper and lower case when entering in your name, e.g. Ron Smith. Avoid using all capital letters or using all lower case letters.
Item 11— Future Plans: This description should include your professional objectives over the next five years and how you hope this program will help you achieve those objectives. This section is an essential component of your application. You should take great care to write a clear, detailed description of the program that you wish to pursue. If there are specific goals that you hope to accomplish, please describe.
Item 19 — TOFEL Exam: Tests of English Language Proficiency Please submit your most recent TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) exam score if possible.
ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION
The Project Statement
The project statement is the most important component of the application. Scholars with the most compelling, well-written proposals are generally recommended for grants. Sometimes those with outstanding professional achievements assume that a brief, general project statement will be sufficient. It is not. Please submit a detailed project statement of three to five single-spaced pages. No more than five pages may be submitted for a project statement.
Begin the project statement with your name and program. At the top of each subsequent page, type your name.
Organize your proposal in order of the following points, and use them as headings for sections of text in your statement.
Professional Objective Statement
This description should include your professional objectives over the next five years and how you hope this program will help you achieve those objectives. This section is essential to your application. You should take great care to write a clear and detailed description of the program you intend to pursue. Please be certain to answer the following questions in this section:
How do you plan to implement what you learn through participation in the program upon your return to your home country?
Which elements of faculty development and/or academic capacity building do you hope to concentrate on during your grant (e.g. curriculum development, assessment, educational leadership, educational administration, academic governance, use of technology in the classroom, new methods/research tools in your field, etc.)?
Personal Statement
The personal statement is a narrative statement in which you can include information about your education, practical experience, special interests, career plans, and your purpose in applying for study. Please be certain to answer the following questions in this section:
What is your vision of university level education?
How have you begun to work toward this vision?
How do you plan to work toward this vision in the future?
What do you hope to learn about American society and culture?
What aspects of your own culture, history, etc. do you wish to share with American faculty and others in the community where you will be living?
How will participation in the program benefit not only you, but also others (students, department, and administrators) at your university?
STEP 3: Complete and submit the application
Your application is not considered complete until the U.S. Embassy in Kabul receives all of your supporting documentation.
Review the PDF version of your application and print a copy for your records. Please submit your application and supporting documentation including the following documents, (a) through (d), together by email attachment to Arif Mujaddedi at KabulPasExchange@state.gov.
(a) Application form
(b) Project statement-professional objective statement and personal statement
(c) Detailed curriculum vitae
(d) TOEFL score (if possible)
(e) Academic transcripts (and English translation, if not in English)
STEP 4: The U.S. Embassy will review the applications and inform the most promising applicants by email that they are registered for a free English test called the institutional TOEFL.
STEP 5: After we receive the institutional TOEFL scores, the U.S. Embassy will contact the most competitive applicants for a personal interview.
STEP 6: We will make the final decisions on the selected candidates and notify all applicants of the decisions by the beginning of August. We aim to select twenty total participants for this year’s program.
The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce the 2012-2013 Junior Faculty Development Program for citizens of Afghanistan to participate in a two-month professional development program in the United States.
The Junior Faculty Development Program is a U.S. Government sponsored program that was initiated in January 2011. The program is designed to enhance and broaden the professional skill sets of Afghan junior faculty in various fields of study; to provide insight into the American system of higher education; and to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of Afghanistan.
Participants will be recruited through a merit-based, open competition and chosen based upon their leadership potential, interest in and intent to continue teaching at the university level, openness to new cultures and ideas, potential to implement their learning in their university environments, and potential to promote mutual understanding between the United States and Afghanistan.
Applicants must be citizens of Afghanistan currently employed full-time as a junior level faculty member (defined as faculty with a bachelor’s degree but no further education) at a public or private Afghan university.
Applicants should have a sufficient level of English to enable them to successfully engage in the classroom environment in the U.S. Many successful applicants earn a score of 550 or higher on the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). English language instruction will be provided during the program to strengthen academic vocabulary and skills across all modalities – listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Strong preference will be given to applicants who have not had extensive recent experience in the U.S. Applicants currently living in the U.S. are ineligible for the program.
All grantees are expected to return to Afghanistan at the conclusion of their program to implement projects and ideas developed while in the U.S. Grantees will be eligible to apply for immediate subsequent rounds of the Fulbright programs (i.e. applicants returning in March 2012 are eligible to apply for the 2013-2014 Fulbright program).
All program costs will be included in the scholarship, including lodging, meals, supplemental health and accident benefits, a book and materials allowance, and travel costs to program location.
To access the PDF application file, click here. Please complete the paper application and send a scanned copy to KabulPASExchanges@state.gov by July 1, 2012 at 5 p.m. Kabul Time.
Detailed instructions on how to apply and submit the application can be found below.
Late applications will not be accepted.
Program Details – Junior Faculty Exchange Program
The Afghan Junior Faculty Development Program provides an intensive professional training program at a U.S. university for up to twenty junior faculty members from public and private Afghan universities. The program aims to enhance and broaden the professional skill sets of junior faculty in various fields of study. Alumni of this program will be well positioned to increase the academic quality in their courses, departments, faculties, and universities. Participants will also have the opportunity to develop language and professional skills to strengthen eligibility for graduate studies at international institutions. The program will take place from January to March 2013, with exact dates to be determined.
The two month program includes the following:
- participation in an initial orientation and an eight-week academic program at a U.S. university host campus, including a one-week intensive English seminar;
- attendance at a professional conference; and
- participation in a multi-day professional seminar in Washington, D.C. taught by experienced CIES staff.
Activities and seminars during the program will focus on theoretical and practical topics such as teaching methodology, pedagogy, resources, and technology. Topics will include the following:
- Overview of US Higher Education Structure and Administration
- Intensive English for Practical Usage and Introduction to U.S. Culture
- Teaching Methodology and Pedagogy, including Curriculum and Syllabus Development
- Leadership in Education
- Integrating Practical Application of Course Material
- Assessment Strategies
- Research Methodology and Building Research Capacity
- Technology - IT as a Pedagogical Tool
- Academic Support Structures
Participant Selection
We aim to select a total of twenty participants for a single program starting in January 2013. We hope to include both male and female participants in this year’s program. Please encourage your female colleagues to apply.
No Dependents
The fellowship is provided for the recipient only; dependents cannot be supported. Dependents of Junior Faculty Program participants are not permitted to accompany participants to the U.S. All Afghan participants must return to Afghanistan immediately following the completion of their academic program.
Deadline
The deadline for submitting applications is July 1, 2012.
How to Apply
STEP 1: Check requirements for submitting an application
The Junior Faculty Development Program is open to Afghan citizens living in Afghanistan, who have:
- A full-time junior level faculty member position (defined as faculty with a bachelor’s degree but no further education) at a public or private Afghan university
- An undergraduate (first university) degree and a strong academic background as demonstrated by their post-secondary transcripts
- Demonstrated interest in and intent to continue teaching at the university level
- Demonstrated leadership qualities and achievements
- Three letters of recommendation from their professors and/or employers
- Institutional TOEFL exam (PBT) score of at least 550 points
- Limited or no prior experience in the United States
Email Arif Mujaddedi at the Embassy, KabulPasExchange@state.gov, with any questions you have about completing the application.
STEP 2: Review application instructions and guidelines
Guidelines:
Read and follow the specific instructions in the application form.
All materials must be submitted in English. If an academic transcript is not in English, include an accurate, certified translation in English.
Avoid using all capital letters on the application form or other documents. For example, for name and address, use an upper case letter for the first letter in a word and lower case letters for the rest of the word, as in Name: Ronald Smith.
Limit each response to no more than the text space or page limit indicated for application questions and attachments.
Proofread the entire application before submitting it. The application should be free of grammatical and spelling errors.
Often specific instructions for completing a question or item are provided in the application itself. Please read all instructions carefully. In addition, please review the following important information.
Item 1—Name: It is very important that you list your name exactly as it appears (or will appear) on your passport. Please use upper and lower case when entering in your name, e.g. Ron Smith. Avoid using all capital letters or using all lower case letters.
Item 11— Future Plans: This description should include your professional objectives over the next five years and how you hope this program will help you achieve those objectives. This section is an essential component of your application. You should take great care to write a clear, detailed description of the program that you wish to pursue. If there are specific goals that you hope to accomplish, please describe.
Item 19 — TOFEL Exam: Tests of English Language Proficiency Please submit your most recent TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) exam score if possible.
ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION
The Project Statement
The project statement is the most important component of the application. Scholars with the most compelling, well-written proposals are generally recommended for grants. Sometimes those with outstanding professional achievements assume that a brief, general project statement will be sufficient. It is not. Please submit a detailed project statement of three to five single-spaced pages. No more than five pages may be submitted for a project statement.
Begin the project statement with your name and program. At the top of each subsequent page, type your name.
Organize your proposal in order of the following points, and use them as headings for sections of text in your statement.
Professional Objective Statement
This description should include your professional objectives over the next five years and how you hope this program will help you achieve those objectives. This section is essential to your application. You should take great care to write a clear and detailed description of the program you intend to pursue. Please be certain to answer the following questions in this section:
How do you plan to implement what you learn through participation in the program upon your return to your home country?
Which elements of faculty development and/or academic capacity building do you hope to concentrate on during your grant (e.g. curriculum development, assessment, educational leadership, educational administration, academic governance, use of technology in the classroom, new methods/research tools in your field, etc.)?
Personal Statement
The personal statement is a narrative statement in which you can include information about your education, practical experience, special interests, career plans, and your purpose in applying for study. Please be certain to answer the following questions in this section:
What is your vision of university level education?
How have you begun to work toward this vision?
How do you plan to work toward this vision in the future?
What do you hope to learn about American society and culture?
What aspects of your own culture, history, etc. do you wish to share with American faculty and others in the community where you will be living?
How will participation in the program benefit not only you, but also others (students, department, and administrators) at your university?
STEP 3: Complete and submit the application
Your application is not considered complete until the U.S. Embassy in Kabul receives all of your supporting documentation.
Review the PDF version of your application and print a copy for your records. Please submit your application and supporting documentation including the following documents, (a) through (d), together by email attachment to Arif Mujaddedi at KabulPasExchange@state.gov.
(a) Application form
(b) Project statement-professional objective statement and personal statement
(c) Detailed curriculum vitae
(d) TOEFL score (if possible)
(e) Academic transcripts (and English translation, if not in English)
STEP 4: The U.S. Embassy will review the applications and inform the most promising applicants by email that they are registered for a free English test called the institutional TOEFL.
STEP 5: After we receive the institutional TOEFL scores, the U.S. Embassy will contact the most competitive applicants for a personal interview.
STEP 6: We will make the final decisions on the selected candidates and notify all applicants of the decisions by the beginning of August. We aim to select twenty total participants for this year’s program.