David L. Boren Awards for International Study

As campus representative, your role is to recruit applicants and publicize the program, advise students, and manage the application process.  Detailed information on that role can be found in the Campus Representative Guidelines.

We appreciate your efforts and hope that you will utilize the following resources.  In addition, if you would like someone from the Boren Awards to visit your campus to discuss the program with students, faculty members, and administrators, please contact us at boren@iie.org.  We will consider each request, although we may not be able to honor each of them.

Handouts

• 2011 Program Information Sheet - a pdf document to use for student and faculty information sessions with basic information on the Boren Scholarships, Fellowships, and The Language Flagship.
• 2010 Boren Brochure and 2010 Boren Poster - You may request additional brochure and posters or request a campus visit from our office by completing the material request form or by contacting us at 1-800-618-NSEP or boren@iie.org.
• 2010 Boren Scholarship Application Statistics and 2010 Boren Fellowship Application Statistics 
• Discipline-Specific Information - The Boren Fellowship is a great opportunity for graduate students in the professional schools, and these handouts should be distributed to students in the following disciplines. These handouts can also be given to campus representatives, faculty, and other students who are interested in what these Fellows have done overseas and how they have completed their government service.
  • Business
  • Engineering
  • Law
  • Medicine and Public Health 

Multimedia

• Webinars
• Boren Awards on Facebook  and Twitter

• PowerPoint Presentations available to provide a basic overview of the Boren Scholarships and Fellowships.  The Boren Awards PowerPoint Presentation covers both the Boren Scholarships and Fellowships while the other two cover their respective programs.

  • Boren Awards PowerPoint Presentation
  • Boren Scholarships PowerPoint Presentation
  • Boren Fellowships PowerPoint Presentation
• Breaking the Language Barrier - A 9 minute video featuring David L. Boren and Boren Alumni discussing the program.  (Video appears to the right)
• David L. Boren addresses the 2008 Boren Scholars - A 5 minute video highlight of David L Boren's Speech at the 2008 Boren Scholarship Convocation. (Video appears to the right)  

Additional Tools

• Campus Specific Website - Log in to update your contact information, to enter your on-campus deadline, and to add campus-specific information and events. 
• Sample listserv announcements for on-campus sessions
• Printer-friendly flyers for on-campus information sessions - Boren Awards, Boren Scholarships, Boren Fellowships
• Newsletter Archives
• 2010 Boren Awards Press Release
• Examples of ways to link to the Boren Awards website
• Service Examples - examples of Boren Scholars and Fellows completing their NSEP service requirements
• Institutional Travel Warning Form - Several of the preferred countries for the Boren Scholarship are under U.S. State Department Travel Warnings. The Boren Scholarship requires that an appropriate representative at the student’s home institution sign the institutional travel warning form. Students are also asked to sign a waiver stating that they have read and understand the travel warning. Scholars who do not have both signed documents will not receive funding from the Boren Scholarship for study in a country with a travel warning. This form is not required until award decisions have been made in May.