Hubert
H. Humphrey International Fellowship Programs
The Hubert H. Humphrey International Fellowship Program was initiated
in 1978 to honor the late Senator and Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey
and his life-long commitment to international cooperation and public service.
The program brings accomplished mid-career professionals from designated
developing nations and emerging democracies to the United States for a
year of academic study, related professional experience and cultural exchange.
The people-to-people approach to international understanding provides
a basis for lasting ties between U.S. citizens and their professional
counterparts in other countries and strengthens the global exchange of
knowledge and experience essential to a sustainable world.
In 2003 the program began hosting Fellows collaboratively with the University
of Minnesota Law School/Human Rights Center. This collaboration
allows the University of Minnesota to expand its offereings to a broader
range of Fellows.
Fellowships are granted competitively to professional candidates with
a commitment to public service. The program is sponsored by the United
States Department of State and is administered nationally by the Institute
of International Education (IIE), which assigns Fellows to a host university
based upon each Fellow's interests and needs.
Each year about a dozen Humphrey Fellows come to the University of Minnesota's
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, which serves as their
base for their Fellowship Year. The goals of the Humphrey International
Fellowship Programs at the University of Minnesota are:
- to enable each Fellow to develop a program that fosters personal and
professional growth and that prepares the Fellow for leadership roles
in his or her country;
- to provide opportunities for a rich exchange of information among
Fellows, and also between Fellows and host families, community members,
professional colleagues and students/faculty at the University;
- to help Fellows understand as broadly and deeply as possible the U.S.
cultural, political, and economic systems; and
- to help Fellows develop a fuller sense of the global context in which
they and their countries operate.
All of the Fellows in the U.S. this year-179 Fellows from 71 countries-attend
a one-week seminar in Washington, D.C. The Washington Seminar gives Fellows
a chance to meet their counterparts from across the country, and an opportunity
to begin discussions and relationships that continue throughout their
Fellowship Year and after their return to their home country. Fellows
also spend a minimum of six weeks in a professional affiliation with a
U.S.-based organization, working in their particular area of interest.
This year the University of Minnesota celebrates its 25th year of hosting
Humphrey Fellows. The U of M has hosted over 274 Humphrey Fellows who
have specialized in wide array of professional fields including business
and management, human rights, medicine, public health, government, law,
mass communication, engineering, education, foreign affairs, social work,
and agricultural science. The Humphrey Institute, the Law School, and
the University of Minnesota remain deeply committed to fulfilling the
program goals for Fellows in public administration and policy. Our collaboration
with university faculty, Humphrey Institute and Law School alumni, an
extensive network of affiliated professionals and host families, and the
Fellows themselves, creates an extraordinary community.
Edmund
S. Muskie Fellowship Program
The Edmund S. Muskie and Freedom Support Act Graduate Fellowship
was established in 1992 by the United States government to promote international
understanding and cooperation. The objective of the program is to provide
leadership training to mid-career professionals from the former Soviet
Union. The program focus is on former Soviet Union because of major economic
and political transformations that are taking place in the region. During
their two-year Fellowship period, Fellows take academic courses and participate
in professional internships.
U.K.
Fulbright Fellowship for Civil Service
The bi-national United States-United Kingdom Fulbright Commission
offers this Fellowship each year to an outstanding U.K. civil servant
for study and research at the Humphrey Institute. The purpose of
the fellowship is to promote collaboration between the U.K. and the U.S.
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