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1)<br>Date: 16 Nov 2012<br>From:<span name="Jeanette Owen" style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Jeanette Owen</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;white-space:nowrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:JOwen@americancouncils.org" target="_blank">JOwen@americancouncils.org</a></span><br>
Subject:2013 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program Deadline Approaching<div><br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Announcement:</span><br><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<u></u></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><u></u>2013 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program - Deadline APPROACHING - November 20, 2012</p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
The deadline to apply for the 2013 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is rapidly approaching, at 11:59 pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, November 20. The application is available online at <a href="http://www.clscholarship.org/" target="_blank">http://www.clscholarship.org</a>. Interested students should start their applications as soon as possible, and should plan to submit them well in advance of the deadline. To ensure that their students’ complete applications can be passed on to selection panels, faculty writing recommendations should also plan to submit their letters before the November 20 deadline.</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">CLS is a program of the U.S. Department of State and provides fully-funded group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for seven to ten weeks for U.S. citizen undergraduate and graduate students. Languages offered: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, and Urdu. <span style="text-transform:uppercase"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> </span>Students from all academic disciplines, including business, engineering, law, medicine, sciences, and humanities are encouraged to apply. The CLS Program aims to attract participants who reflect the full spectrum of U.S. university students – from diverse fields of study, cultural backgrounds, and institutions, as well as from all U.S. states and territories.</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Prior to preparing their application, interested students should review the full eligibility and application information on the CLS Program website: </span><a href="http://www.clscholarship.org/applicants" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(42,93,176)">www.clscholarship.org/applicants</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">. Please note that Arabic, Chinese, Persian, Russian, and Japanese institutes have language prerequisite<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">s</span>, which can also be found at this link.</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">For more information about the CLS Program, please visit the CLS website: <a href="http://www.clscholarship.org/" target="_blank">http://www.clscholarship.org</a>.</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Jeanette S. Owen, Ph.D.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-size:10pt">Project Director<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Critical Language Scholarship Program<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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