Opportunities
Non-Colby Internship/Job Opportunities
General
- Virtual Student Foreign Service (VSFS) (State Department)
- The USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship Program (Deadline: January 23, 2013)
- Asia Society (Career opportunities: both internships and jobs)
- Asia Development Bank: Internships and Employment
- Asia Foundation: Job opportunities
China and Taiwan
- US-China Economic and Security Review Committee: Jobs and Internships
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Japan
Please contact Professor Prindle ([email protected]) for internship opportunities in Japan
Korea
- The May 18 Memorial Foundation (International Human Rights), Korea: click here
Funding for Language Studies
- Freeman Awards for Study in Asia (Freeman-ASIA)provides scholarships for U.S. undergraduate students with demonstrated financial need to study abroad in East or Southeast Asia. For more information click here
Colby Advisor: Kim Besio [email protected] - Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program offers awards for undergraduate study abroad and was established by the International Academic Opportunity Act of 2000. This scholarship provides awards for U.S. undergraduate students who are receiving Federal Pell Grant funding at a two-year or four-year college or university to participate in study abroad programs worldwide. For more information, click here
Colby Advisor: Kim Besio [email protected] - David L. Boren Awards for International Study Boren Scholarships and Fellowships provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to add an important international and language component to their educations. We focus on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study that are critical to U.S. national security, broadly defined, and underrepresented in study abroad. For more information, click here
Colby Advisor: Nancy Downey Off-Campus Studies [email protected] - Critical Language Scholarship Program A program of United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program will offer intensive summer language institutes overseas in thirteen critical need foreign languages for summer 2011. The selection process will be administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) with awards approved by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. For more information, click here