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Approximately twenty-tive participants will be
selected at the end of their senior year for fellowship
awards, ranging up to $4,000, for a year of graduate
Howard University
study in foreign affairs fields at an institution se-
lected in consultation with the program representa-
FOREIGN AFFAIRS SCHOLARS PROGRAM
tives. During or following the year of graduate study,
participants are expected to take both the Foreign
Howard University, in cooperation with the Depart-
Service Officer Examination and the Federal Service
ment of State, the Agency for International Develop-
Entrance Examination.
ment, and the United States Information Agency, is
AND
engaged in directing a program designed to assist
PROGRAM FOR SENIORS
in the training of college students who plan careers
in foreign affairs areas of the national government.
Seniors selected for the program during its first
This program resulted from the deliberations of a
year will serve paid summer internships, provided a
sufficient number of vacancies can be found. Fellow-
committee composed of the presidents of a number of
predominantly Negro colleges, together with repre-
ships for graduate study also are available to quali-
sentatives of the Department of State. With the
fied seniors who, like the juniors, are expected to take
support of a grant from the Ford Foundation and sub-
the Foreign Service Officer Examination and the
Federal Service Entrance Examination during or im-
sequent grants from other sources, the Foreign Affairs
Scholars Program was organized in the fall of 1963
mediately following the year of graduate study.
and will be of four years duration.
To be eligible for participation in the program,
students must meet the basic requirements regarding
citizenship and age applicable to persons seeking em-
LIMITED ENROLLMENT
ployment as Foreign Service Officers. Basically, these
During its initial phase, the Foreign Affairs Scholars
requirements are that the applicant shall have reached
Program will involve the selection of approximately
the age of twenty-one and not have passed the age of
65 persons, primarily students who will have com-
thirty at the time he applies for the Foreign Service
pleted their junior year of college by June, 1964. A
Officer Examination. An exception is made for
small number of students who will have finished their
applicants who have reached the age of twenty and
undergraduate training by June, 1964, will be included
have successfully completed their junior year of
during the program's first year of operation. Junior
undergraduate study. In addition, applicants must have
students selected to participate in the program will
been American citizens for at least nine years at the
be given an opportunity to serve as paid interns in
time they apply to take the Foreign Service Officers
one of the departments or agencies of the national
Examination.
government during the summer of 1964. During this
TOP TALENT NEEDED
period of internship, they will also take part in a
Saturday Seminar. On returning to their colleges for
Secretary of State Dean Rusk has said: "The
their senior year of study, participants will be visited
demands upon the Foreign Service in this country
Bg
and counseled by representatives of the program, as
and abroad in terms of knowledge, in terms of an
10
well as be provided with supplementary educational
understanding of what our nation is all about, in terms
assistance of various kinds.
continued
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October 1963 memo on blacks appointed to positions in the Ohio state government.
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