The East Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies and Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies have awarded $1.150 million in student support this year in the form of 50 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship grants to Ohio State students spanning 16 graduate programs and 22 undergraduate majors. Funding for FLAS Fellowships comes from the U.S. Department of Education under Title VI of the Higher Education Act and is subsidized by generous matching funding from The Ohio State University Graduate School.
This year’s FLAS fellowships support the development of area studies knowledge and language fluency in 13 languages.
- The East Asian Studies Center awarded funding to two graduate and two undergraduate students in Summer 2024 and eight graduate and five undergraduate students in Academic Year 2024-2025 to support advanced studies of Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
- The Center for Latin American Studies awarded funding to two graduate and two undergraduate students in Summer 2024 and four graduate and five undergraduate students in Academic Year 2024-2025 to support the study of Haitian Creole, Portuguese and Quechua.
- The Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies awarded funding to two graduate and five undergraduate students in Summer 2024 and nine graduate and four undergraduate students in Academic Year 2024-2025 to support the study of Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Uzbek.
Summer FLAS Fellows complete the equivalent of a full year of language study in an intensive program (usually 6-10 weeks long). The fellowship covers up to $5,000 of the language program’s tuition, provides a $2,500 stipend, and in some instances, up to $1,000 towards travel.
Academic year FLAS Fellowships are awarded to undergraduate, graduate or professional students who are enrolled in a course of study at Ohio State that requires both language and area studies expertise. Students are required to take one language and one area studies course in both autumn and spring semesters, completing one academic year language sequence. The fellowship provides a stipend of $20,000 and tuition support up to $18,000 for graduate and professional students, though Graduate School contributions cover all tuition costs for most fellows. For undergraduate students, it provides a stipend of $5,000 and tuition and fees up to $10,000.