Application Steps

All application materials, including recommendation letters, must be submitted via our online application form by the deadline for your award, available in the IEA overview section as well as your award's description.  

Before you begin, check your eligibility and the award description for any specific requirements. Only complete, eligible applications will be forwarded for consideration.  Below you will find more pointed guidance for all application materials.

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Seminar Details

Since IEA seminar itineraries are arranged by the host country, you do not provide a project statement or make your own plans. Instead, you must provide essay responses to the following questions in the application:

Professional Biography (Up to 2,000 characters, including spaces and punctuation): Highlight your educational background, professional/administrative experience, most significant professional accomplishments, and key responsibilities in your current position. You may include information on your professional affiliations/memberships, community service, publications, honors and awards, and any other relevant information.

Country Selection and Professional Relevance (Up to 4,500 characters, including spaces and punctuation):

• Why are you applying to the IEA seminar for this country? Describe how your professional responsibilities relate to this grant, including any achievements in the development of international initiatives and/or systems.
• What expertise can you share with peers in the host country? Describe your experience with this country. Please include if you have visited this country previously, and any communication or interaction with the country such as setting up partnerships, cultural engagement, and experiences sending/receiving students.

Outcomes and Impact (Up to 3,000 characters, including spaces and punctuation):

• How would your participation in this IEA seminar contribute to the international education goals of your institution?
• What is the anticipated impact your participation would have on your institution and/or community?  Be specific and consider outcomes with the potential to be broad and sustainable. How would you share what you have learned with your home institution and others?
• What is the anticipated impact your participation would have on your professional development and career?

Cultural Preparation (Up to 1,500 characters, including spaces and punctuation):  Please describe your ability to be adaptable, culturally sensitive, collegial, and how you may serve as a cultural ambassador for the U.S.

Additional Information: If there is any additional information you would like those reviewing your application to be aware of, please include it here. (Up to 500 characters, including spaces and punctuation.)

CV/Resume

All applications require a curriculum vitae or resume. It should be clearly organized and tailored to show how your credentials, professional standing, and accomplishments relate to international education.  Note that your CV should demonstrate that you meet the requirements for your award. 

• Include your employment history, listing all items chronologically, starting with the most recent

Format Requirements:

• Up to 6 pages
• Single spaced, 12-point or larger font size; 1-inch margins
• Use headers and/or bullets to organize and convey key elements, and page numbers
• File type: Adobe PDF (recommended) or Word document
• Only Latin alphabet characters are allowed (i.e. do not include any words or phrases that contain non-English characters)

Institutional Statement

All applications require an institutional statement.  Note that this document is not about you personally; it is to provide reviewers an overview of your institution and its international engagement. 

Institutional Statements should address the following:

• General information about your home institution (type of institution, total enrollment, number of degrees offered, etc.).
• The number of international students on campus and where they are coming from.
  • If applying for the IEA Seminar in Japan or Korea, you must include the number of students from Japan and Korea currently on your campus.
• The study abroad opportunities available on your campus.
• Any institutional partnerships, particularly with universities in the country where the grant takes place.
• Any future goals/plans for internationalizing the campus

Format Requirements

• Up to 2 pages
• Single spaced, 12-point or larger font size; 1-inch margins
• Use headers and/or bullets to organize and convey key elements, and page numbers
• If this document is produced (in part or entirely) by someone other than the applicant, the source should be cited within the document
• File type: Adobe PDF (recommended) or Word document
• Only Roman characters are allowed

Recommendations

All applications require two letters of recommendation. Recommenders evaluate your professional qualifications, the potential for institutional impact, and your personal qualifications and qualities.

• Applicants must register their recommenders in the online application, and are responsible for ensuring their letters are submitted via the online system by the application deadline
• Recommenders submit their letters directly to the online application, and may not be submitted outside the online system
• Letters can be submitted before or after you submit the application, but must be submitted by the application deadline
• All recommendations must be in English

Tips

• Applicants: Provide your recommenders with a copy of your statement of intent
• Recommenders: Retain an electronic copy of submitted letters

 

Who may serve as a recommender?

• One letter must be from your current supervisor or someone you report to at your institution; they should be familiar with your administrative skills and leadership success
• One letter can be from any colleague who can speak to your personal attributes and interest in international education; they can be from your own or another institution
• References from relatives are not permitted
• Representatives of U.S. Embassy posts or Fulbright Commissions in the country of application may not serve as recommenders
• Representatives of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) at the U.S. Department of State may not serve as recommenders
• Representatives of the Institute of International Education may not serve as recommender

For Recommenders

Please see these instructions for those providing letters of recommendation.

 

Reapplying

If you applied for a previous application cycle, to reapply or submit an updated application for the current competition:  

• Login to your Slate application using your existing login and password. You will land on the Application Management page where you can view your prior applications and start a new one.  
  • To download a PDF copy of your previous materials, click on the respective Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program application to open it. Then click on Preview Application Proof to open a downloadable copy of your materials. 
  • To start your new application, click on Start New Application.  
• Some of the basic personal information fields will automatically populate based on the information you provided previously, though you should double check them in case any updates are needed. 
• You will need to re-upload your CV/Resume and Institutional Statement. We encourage you to review them as well to make sure that your materials fit the current year’s seminar. Be sure to carefully review the award description, as it may have been updated.  
• Your recommenders must upload their reference letters to your new application, even if they have served as recommenders in previous years. If they need a copy of letters they provided in the past, they can email FulbrightScholarReview@iie.org for assistance. 
• If you applied for a competition prior to 2020, you will need to create a new application account in the Slate application system; please refer to the Instructions (PDF) and webinar linked above.