The Department of Economics is pleased to have two international students in its master’s program who are studying through two distinguished graduate fellowship programs. Gulnara Toyjanova from Turkmenistan is a participant of the Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program and Arten Mehmeti is studying as part of the Kosovo American Education Fund (KAEF).
The Muskie Fellowship Program was started by the U.S. Congress in 1992 and states that its program “encourages economic and democratic growth in Eurasia” by promoting “mutual understanding, building democracy and fostering the transition to market economies” for graduate students from 12 countries of the former Soviet Union. In addition to classroom work, the students also participate in community work and a summer internship. The Muskie Program is part of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State.
Meanwhile, the American Councils for International Education chooses KAEF fellows from among a talented pool of graduate students in Kosovo to attend select universities in the U.S. for one or two years, and then students return to their home country to assume leadership positions tied to economic development. BGSU is among eight universities nationwide to welcome a KAEF fellow for this academic year. The U.S. Agency for International Development began the KAEF Graduate Fellowship Program through an endowment.
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