Important Information

If you would like to read more about the Foundation or the partner institutions, you can readily find information on their website:
http://www.killamfellowships.com

Mount Allison has been a founding partner in the prestigious Killam Fellowships Program. This Program involves a partnership between the American Killam Trusts and the Foundation for Educational Exchange Between Canada and the United States. The purpose of this partnership is to create a high level scholarship exchange program for third year university students - providing the opportunities to attend university in the country other than their home country (Canada or U.S.) and participate in the life of the host community for one academic year thereby fostering Canadian-American relations.

Each partner University has the ability to nominate one to three students for consideration of this scholarship which has a value of $10,000 USD.for a full academic year, and $5,000 for a single semester. Mount Allison students will pay tuition to Mount Allison as though they were still a student here. Students would then be considered a guest at the American institution, therefore the tuition fees of American education do not apply to you. The $10,000 USD scholarship is intended to pay for your flight, living expenses etc. Students who apply will be reviewed for recommendation by the Committee for International Programs, reporting to the Vice-President, Academic and Research who will make recommendations to the Killam Fellowship Foundation.

Students who wish to apply to this opportunity MUST have the following criteria:

• the student is a citizen of Canada
• is a full time undergraduate student (of any degree program at Mount Allison) with a G.P.A of 3.7 or higher
• will be in third year commencing September 2013
• be fluent in English
• demonstrates superior academic achievement
• must not have had recent, significant experience in the United States (not lived in the United States in the three years prior to their exchange)
• willing to study for one term or two complete terms

Students will be considered for attendance of this program commencing September 2013 or January 2014. This scholarship is primarily based on academics, therefore please consider seriously having at least one referee who can comment on your academic performance.

Currently the confirmed American participants are:
American University, Arizona State University, Bridgewater State College, Clemson University, Ithaca College, University of Maine, Plattsburgh State University, Smith College, University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University, University of Washington, and Wellesley College.

The confirmed Canadian participants are:
Acadia University, Dalhousie University, McGill University, McMaster University, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Université de Montreal, Mount Allison University, University of Ottawa, Queen’s University, York University and University of Toronto.

Students applying to the Killam Fellowship Program are asked to carefully follow the instructions provided by the Killam Fellowship Foundation in the application. All applications submitted will first be adjudicated by the Committee on International Programs at Mount Allison. The Committee's responsibility is to select one to three candidates who will then be recommended to the Vice-President, Academic, Mount Allison. The Vice-President will then carry out interviews of those selected candidates and determine which names will be submitted to the Killam Fellowship Foundation.
In light of this process, please also submit a resume or c.v., outlining the extra-curricular activities you have achieved over the years. There is no opportunity to express this on the Killam application and the Committee for International Programs would like to consider those aspects during their review of applicants. The resume/c.v. would be for our files only. The Committee will also review transcripts (you are not required to submit an additional copy for the Committee)
of all applicants.
Please also consider the following points when applying:

1. As you are required to have two separate referees and the referee letters are only for the Foundation and the Committee for International Programs at Mount Allison, you only need to have one original of each letter and one copy of each for the Committee.
2. This scholarship is primarily based on academics, therefore please consider seriously having at least one referee who can comment on your academic performance.
3. If you would like to read more about the Foundation or the partner institutions, you can readily find information on their website:
http://www.killamfellowships.com

Coordinator
Jane Dryden
jdryden@mta.ca

 

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