{"id":334,"date":"2021-07-30T20:53:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T20:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/internships\/?page_id=334"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:39:49","slug":"freeman-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/internships\/freeman-fellowships\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeman Fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Furman University\u2019s International Internship Program in East and Southeast Asia<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>As part of The Furman Advantage, the Freeman Fellowship supports students who independently seek and obtain a full-time international summer internship (i.e., 8 weeks, 35-40 hours\/week) in one of the following locations: <strong>Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar\/Burma, Mongolia, Thailand, Vietnam, Bhutan, Nepal, or Laos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Furman University is the fortunate recipient of a grant (subject to renewal each year) from the Freeman Foundation which provides individual students with funding <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>up to $8,000<\/strong><\/span> to participate in these engaged learning experiences. The application process is competitive and only a small cohort of 14 students are awarded these fellowships each year.<\/p>\n<p>First-Years, Second-Years, and Juniors are eligible to apply.\u00a0 Graduating Seniors are no longer eligible. International students are also eligible, provided they intern in countries outside their country of origin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Applicants MUST complete this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/internships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/123\/2023\/11\/Freeman-Fellowship-Anticipated-Budget-1.xlsx\">Anticipated Budget Excel Spreadsheet<\/a> and upload it to the end of their application.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/studyaway.furman.edu\/_portal\/tds-program-brochure?programid=45707\">Apply here for The 2026 Freeman Fellowship<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>The Deadline is February 1, 2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University\u2019s International Internship Program in East and Southeast Asia As part of The Furman Advantage, the Freeman Fellowship supports students who independently seek and obtain a full-time international summer internship (i.e., 8 weeks, 35-40 hours\/week) in one of the following locations: Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar\/Burma, Mongolia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":326,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-334","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/334\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}