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Contact Information

Please address all correspondence to:

Boren Scholarships and Fellowships
Institute of International Education
1400 K Street NW, 6th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20005

Phone us at:

1-800-618-NSEP
(1-800-618-6737)

Email: nsep@iie.org

Note to Undergraduates

Often your questions can be answered by your campus representative. You'll often find that person in the study abroad office on your campus. The representative's name pops up automatically into your online application once you fill in the name of your school, and an email to the representative is triggered as you start the application. But it's your responsibility to make contact once you've decided to apply.

If you can't locate your campus representative, please telephone us and we'll put you in touch.

NSEP

Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are a part of the National Security Education Program (NSEP).

Established by Congress in 1991, NSEP’s role is to strengthen U.S. national security by helping educate U.S. citizens to better understand and more effectively communicate with other world cultures and languages. NSEP is guided by a broad meaning of U.S. national security that includes myriad factors affecting our country’s economic, military, social, and/or political well-being.

NSEP’s Objectives:

• to equip Americans with an understanding of less commonly taught languages and cultures and enable the nation to remain integrally involved in global issues related to U.S. National Security;
• to build a critical base of future leaders both in government service and in higher education, who have cultivated international relationships and worked and studied alongside experts of other countries;
• to develop a cadre of professionals with more than the traditional knowledge of language and culture who can use this ability to help the U.S. make sound decisions on and deal effectively with global issues related to U.S. National Security; and
• to enhance institutional capacity and increase the number of faculty who can educate U.S. citizens toward achieving these goals.

For more information visit NSEP’s home page.

IIE

Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE).

Founded in 1919, IIE is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to building international goodwill through educational and cultural exchange among nations. IIE, with its portfolio of programs, enables more than 18,000 outstanding men and women each year to study, conduct research, receive practical training, or provide technical assistance outside their own countries.

For more information visit IIE’s Home Page.

All correspondence and questions related to applications for the Boren Scholarships and Fellowships should be addressed to IIE.

David L. Boren

A United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1979 to 1994, David L. Boren currently serves as the thirteenth President of the University of Oklahoma.

He is widely respected for his academic credentials, his longtime support of education, and his distinguished political career. A consistent voice for political reform, he was perhaps best known as an advocate for strong U.S. defense, and a fully engaged foreign policy.

While in the Senate, Boren served on the Finance and Agriculture Committees and was also the longest-serving chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence. For more than ten years, he led the fight for congressional campaign finance reform.

He authored the National Security Education Act of 1991, which established the National Security Education Program.
Boren is a graduate of Yale University (1963). He was selected as a Rhodes Scholar and earned a master’s degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University in England (1965).

In 1968, he received a law degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law. He has served since 1998 as a member of the Yale University Board of Trustees. His university experience also includes four years on the faculty of Oklahoma Baptist University, where he was Chairman of the Department of Political Science and Chairman of the Division of Social Sciences.