Thirty top academics and professionals from the U.S. and abroad collaborate
for a year on a topic of global significance. The New Century Scholar theme for 2009-2010 is "The University as Innovation Driver and Knowledge Center". The program description for 2010-2011 is to be determined.
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In March 2001, the Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State
and the Council for International Exchange of
Scholars, announced the launching of the Fulbright
new Century Scholars Program (NCS), one of three
new initiatives designed to build on the strengths
of the Fulbright Scholar Program by extending
its mission and outreach.
The New Century Scholars Program will play a
vital role in forging new links among scholars
and professionals from around the world who will
work together to seek solutions to issues and
concerns that affect humankind.
- Each year approximately 30 outstanding scholars
and practitioners from the U.S. and abroad will
be selected as New Century Scholars to participate
in the program through an open competition.
Of the thirty, approximately one-third will
be U.S. citizens while the remaining two thirds
will be visiting scholars from countries with
an operational Fulbright Scholar Program.
- NCS will provide a platform for scholars from
the US and around the world to engage in debate
and dialogue based on multidisciplinary research
and to develop new global models for understanding
the social context within which nations and
communities shape their responses to the many
challenges of the 21st century. This particular
aspect of the New Century Scholars program is
a unique feature that distinguishes it from
the core Fulbright Scholar Program.
- While NCS Scholars' pursuit of individual
research objectives will be intrinsic to a collaborative
and comparative analysis of the issues elaborated
by the program, prospective applicants should
be advised that NCS is not the best vehicle
for conducting a traditional research project.
Under the guidance of an appointed Distinguished
Scholar Leader, NCS Scholars will be challenged to move beyond their individual research and to engage in collaborative, multidisciplinary
examination of the announced topic.
To create a platform for collaborative thinking
and analysis, NCS combines the traditional Fulbright
research exchange experience with a series of three
in-person seminar meetings and ongoing virtual communication
among the multinational and multidisciplinary participants
under the guidance of the NCS Distinguished Scholar
Leader. At the end of the program year, NCS Scholars
will again convene to share the results of their
individual research and collaborative engagement
and to develop a set of recommendations for initiatives
that will translate the results of their collaborative
thinking into tangible impact on the local, regional
or global level.
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