The Peace Corps announced the launch of eight new Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Programs in partnership with Bowling Green State University. The programs will provide graduate school scholarships to returned Peace Corps volunteers who complete a degree-related internship in an under-served American community while they pursue their studies.

Selected Fellows will now have the opportunity to work toward a degree in the following areas: College Student Personnel (MA), Higher Education (Ph.D.), French (MA), History (MA), Interdisciplinary Gerontology (MS), Media and Communications (MA and Ph.D.), Technology Management (MTM), and Tourism, Leisure, and Event Planning (M.Ed).

Bowling Green already offers Coverdell Fellows programs in: Spanish (MA), Food and Nutrition (MS), Business Administration (MBA), Public Administration (MPA), American Cultural Studies (Ph.D.), and the founding program of Cross-Cultural and International Education (MACIE).

Fellows selected for the program will receive financial aid ranging from half of their educational costs to a full scholarship. The Fellows program, now including 16 degrees, will be administered from the Graduate College, which has provided support in the efforts toward expansion.

The Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program began in 1985 at Teachers College, Columbia University and now includes more than 80 university partners in 33 states and the District of Columbia. The program is specifically reserved for students who have already completed their Peace Corps service abroad. For more information, visit www.peacecorps.gov/fellows.