Promoting the Gilman Scholarship on Your Campus

Request Brochures
Press Release
Download a Flyer
Website
Financial Aid Office

Brochure

To request copies of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program brochure for use on your campus, please send an email to gilmanadvisors@iie.org with your contact information, office mailing address and the number of copies you would like to receive.


Press Release Template

Several of you have requested that we supply you with a template that you can use to submit Press Releases to your campus and community newspaper announcing your students who have been selected as Gilman Scholars. We hope this new Press Release Template is helpful in assisting you in promoting study abroad and the Gilman Scholarship Program on campus and within the community. Click here to view a Sample Press Release.

Should an article concerning your Gilman Scholars be published in your campus newspaper or on your website, please send us a copy or link to the article so that we can report on the program's benefits to your students to ensure continued funding for this important program. A full list of the Fall 2009 awards offered can be found at Gilman Scholarship Recipients page.


Flyers & Posters

The flyers and posters below on the Gilman Scholarship Program may be downloaded and printed off for use on your campus. This is a great resource to post on campus or distribute to students during information sessions, fairs or within application packets. This flyer can be particularly useful when your office is unable to wait for brochures to be sent via U.S. mail.

Website

One of the best ways to promote the Gilman Scholarship Program on your campus is to add a link to the Gilman website on your office website. By adding a link to the Gilman Scholarship Program your students can easily obtain information on this program at times when they may not be able to contact your office directly. Please click here for an overview of the Gilman Program that you may use for posting information on your website. The website address for the Gilman Scholarship Program homepage is http://www.iie.org/gilman.

Coordinating With Your Financial Aid Office

There are many different avenues for promoting the Gilman Scholarship Program on your campus. However, as receiving a Federal Pell Grant is an eligibility criteria, one of the best ways is to coordinate with your campus financial aid office to contact all students currently receiving a Pell Grant at your institution. Advisors have indicated to the Gilman office that by targeting Pell Grant recipients they were able to reach students that their traditional outreach had been missing and encourage a broader and more diverse range of students to consider study abroad opportunities on their campus.

Many institutions have found that informational meetings highlighting study abroad scholarship programs, such as the Gilman Scholarship Program, and study abroad opportunities, to be an effective way of reaching out to Pell Grant recipients. Often a representative from the financial aid office is also available at this session to discuss what types of federal, state and institutional aid can be applied to study abroad opportunities on your campus.

In this way, study abroad offices are able to leverage scholarship programs to reach out to groups of students that may be less likely to consider studying abroad an option due to financial constraints. Many Gilman Scholarship recipients indicate that they would never have thought of walking into the study abroad office had they not first heard about the Gilman Scholarship or other funding sources.

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