Young and mid-career professionals are brought to the United States by the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program for a year of non-degree graduate-level study, leadership development, and professional engagement with American peers.
Please read this article in its entirety to get all the information you need to apply successfully, including the program’s eligibility requirements, requirements, application deadline, and more. You may see a general summary of what to anticipate in the table below.
Information on the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program
The Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program develops leadership skills among global professionals who work together to tackle regional and worldwide issues and promote change for the benefit of all. This expanding global network exchanges best practices and develops expertise in fields of crucial importance to advance societal and institutional capacity, promote human rights and freedoms, ensure sustainable environments, and create thriving communities with counterparts in the United States through academic study and professional development.
Candidates from the public and private sectors who are dedicated to serving the public are given fellowships on a competitive basis in the following areas:
⦁ Institutional and human capacity:
⦁ Economic Progress
⦁ Banking & Finance
⦁ Public Administration and Public Policy Analysis
⦁ Technology Management and Policy
⦁ Human Resource Administration
⦁ Rights and liberties
⦁ Journalism and communications
⦁ Worldwide Religious Freedom
⦁ Human Rights and the Law
⦁ Human Trafficking Policy and Prevention
⦁ Sustainability of Lands
⦁ Development in Agriculture and Rural Areas
⦁ Climate Change, Environmental Policy,
⦁ Natural Resources
⦁ Regional and Urban Planning
⦁ Healthy Communities
⦁ Infectious and Contagious Diseases
⦁ Management and Policy in Public Health
⦁ Policy and Prevention of HIV/AIDS
⦁ Education, treatment, and prevention of substance abuse (see 4b)
⦁ Administration, planning, and policy in education
⦁ Administration of Higher Education
⦁ Educating foreigners in English
For whom is the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship available?
⦁ Show a dedication to serving the public and the potential to progress in their fields.
⦁ prior to August 2022, at least five years of professional experience in the field
⦁ a university degree program that required at least four years of full-time study to be completed in order to be admitted to graduate schools in the United States.
⦁ possess a keen interest in the political elements of their area of expertise
⦁ English language proficiency with a minimum TOEFL test score of 525 on paper or 71 on the internet Candidates with lower test scores might be suggested for long-term English training.
⦁ Show that you have the necessary knowledge, abilities, and dedication, and explain how you will gain from this program in ways that you haven’t before.
Ineligible individuals include those who:
⦁ even though they hold important positions, recent graduates from universities.
⦁ individuals who have spent at least one academic year in graduate school in the United States during the seven) years preceding to August 2022.
⦁ People who have traveled recently to a third country, especially in developed nations
⦁ academic researchers or university instructors without managerial responsibility (except in the fields of Substance Abuse Education, Prevention, and Treatment, or Teaching of English as a Foreign Language)
⦁ individuals who spent more than six months inside the United States in any capacity in the five years before August 2022
⦁ individuals who hold both American citizenship and permanent residency
The Humphrey Fellowship awards provide round-trip airfare to the US, as well as living costs while enrolled in full-time studies. Financial support for dependents is not included in grant provisions.
How to submit a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship application
The IIE has application forms accessible.
website: https://apply.iie.org/huberthhumphrey Before completing the application forms, users must register for a new account and follow the instructions on this website and other supporting documents.
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What is the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship application deadline?
The deadline for entering this application is August 13, 2022.
RECRUITING PROCESS
Please get in touch with your nation’s Binational Fulbright Commission or the U.S. Embassy’s Public Affairs Section to obtain the Humphrey Fellowship application and learn more about applying.
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National Screening at Stage 1
Binational Fulbright Commissions/Foundations or the Public Affairs Sections of U.S. Embassies facilitate the Humphrey Program abroad. Applications for the Humphrey Fellowship Program are reviewed by commissions and embassies, who then choose which ones to invite for interviews and forward to the Institute of International Education in the United States for further consideration. To find more about its selection criteria, kindly get in touch with the Embassy or Commission in your nation.
Stage 2: The Institute of International Education conducts a screening
The Institute of International Education (IIE) office in the United States must receive nominations from embassies and commissions by October 1. Each country has a different date for applicants to submit their applications to the Embassy or Commission.
Please inquire about the application deadline with the Fulbright Commission or the local embassy.
IIE checks the basic eligibility of each application before convening regional Candidate Review Committees (CRC) to assess the submissions.
Stage 3: Committees that review candidates
In the US, Candidate Review Committees meet in December. For the purpose of reviewing applications for certain program fields, independent expert panels comprised of individuals with regional experience working in academia, non-governmental organizations, or international organizations are assembled.
Stage 4: J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board approval
Congress established the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FSB) to oversee the Humphrey Fellowship Program and other Fulbright exchange initiatives.
The FSB establishes the principles and procedures for running the Humphrey Fellowship Program, has final say in choosing all Fellows, and oversees how the Program is run both domestically and internationally.
Stage 5 Placement of Selected Humphrey Fellows
The Department of State will notify participating U.S. embassies and Binational Fulbright Commissions of the final selection results after receiving approval from the FSB, and they will inform applicants of their status. The Institute of International Education assigns the qualified applicants to the American universities chosen to house Humphrey Fellows. The program plan statements included in applicants’ applications and the candidates’ fields of study are used to decide placements.
The deadline for applications is August 13, 2022.
