Seventy Peer Review Committees screen their applications and conduct personal interviews. Foreign educators are screened and nominated by either U.S. Embassies, by Fulbright Commissions, or counterpart agencies. The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board gives final approval. Applications are available in April. Deadline for submission is October 15, 2000.
Extensions are possible.
In fiscal year 1999, the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program awarded 435 grants. Estimates for fiscal years 2000 and 2001, are 457 grants. U.S. educators, many of them teacher trainers or curriculum developers, teach in all fields, including foreign languages. Reports by all academic grantees are required at the end of their grants. As prescribed by grant terms.