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8. What has been the impact of the SYLFF Program at your institution? (Check one and write-in the primary reason)
Degree of impact
| Africa/Europe |
Asia/Pacific |
North/South America |
| Significant impact |
16(62%) |
Significant impact |
10(47%) |
Significant impact |
9 (69%) |
| Modest impact |
10(38%) |
Modest impact |
9 (43%) |
Modest impact |
4 (30%) |
| Minor impact |
0 ( 0%) |
Minor impact |
2 (10%) |
Minor impact |
0 ( 0%) |
| I don't know |
0 ( 0%) |
I don't know |
0 ( 0%) |
I don't know |
0 ( 0%) |
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Primary reason
Positive reasons:
- Allow students in need to continue their studies and research that might not otherwise be possible (6)
- Allow universities to offer attractive fellowship to top students who might have chosen another school (3)
- Demands/application for scholarships have been increasing
- Rare scholarship program in the field of social science and humanities/ PhD students (2)
- Scholarships are sought by the best/highly-talented students (6)
- Enhance cooperation/networking among fellows (2)
- Stimulating effect by selected fellows to other students
- More opportunities to go abroad/do internship (5)
- Follow-up programs provide more opportunities to fellows (2)
- Students consider SYLFF fellowship as prestigious (2)
- Collaboration with another SYLFF institution (2)
- Alumni organization/ local association (2)
- Internationalization of university by receiving international students (2)
- Opportunities to learn about new and different cultures (2)
- Served as a potential model for other fellowship programs at universities (2)
- Strengthen cooperation among the consortia
Negative reasons:
- Limited number of recipients per year (8)
- Small amount of scholarships to respective students (3)
- Large amount of non-SYLFF support available (2)
- Decrease of interest rates (2)
- Too small amount of the endowment
- Not participating in all follow-up programs
- Limited scope of activities to students only
- Part of the funding for international students, who eventually leave the country
- Not sufficiently administered by universities
- Business school model is difficult to align with SYLFF goals
9. In what specific ways can the SYLFF Program have greater impact at your institution?
●Increase funding (21)
Increased funding: for the mobility program, in order to allow more scholarships, for international research, for traveling expenses when presenting researches, for FMP, for joint research and workshops on specific issues, etc.
●More interaction between SYLFF institutions (13)
More teachers and students' mobility between SYLFF institutions, more direct communication with fellows, intellectual exchange, development of bilateral cooperation (joint programs), using follow-up programs to strengthen community-building by SYLFF fellows
●Enhance international networks (12)
Opportunities (with some financial support, perhaps travel, limited stipend) for faculty to be able to use other institutions in the network as a home base to conduct research and/or teach either during the summer or during a sabbatical year or semester, implementing teacher exchange programs, more international postgraduate student visitors, create a Central European SYLFF Network could assist in the development of the European region, more collaborations between SYLFF institutions in other areas of study (e.g. research)
●Increase number of scholarships (8)
Increase scholarships: for graduate/postgraduate students (in all areas including sciences and engineering), in the humanities and in scientific fields
●Introduction of new programs (5)
New forms of programs supporting potential leaders, expanding programs to faculty members, promoting interdisciplinary programs, implementing alumni return programs (back-to-school)
●Increase the number of students participating in SYLFF programs (3)
●Greater development and cooperation of the local SYLFF fellows associations (3)
●Keeping contact info of SYLFF fellows current with foundation so that they can be informed of opportunities (2)
Send newsletters to all SYLFF fellows directly
●Acknowledge corporate responsibility and leadership to allow universities to approach SYLFF goals from that perspective (2)
●Increase training (2)
Leadership training, effective training for local institutions
●Increase follow-up programs (2)
More follow-up programs to: encourage fellows to do more specific research or endeavor to the social activities, and to support scientific research
●The involvement of more people (2)
Especially in follow-up programs and in the Mobility Program (so universities will have a greater ability to receive fellows from other countries)
●More assistance in the Mobility Program
●Making SYLFF programs (e.g. Mobility Program) available institutionally (not just to SYLFF fellows) to provide greater opportunities for links and joint projects
●Stimulate research in how to get cultural changes happen
●Concrete examples will help to market this opportunity to our current SYLFF fellows
●Make it possible for students who are not SYLFF scholarship recipients to be able to participate (some guidelines will need to be established)
●Allow excellent students to enroll in study programs abroad but also to go for field research
●The exchange of new ideas to the university when students return
●Invite more than 2 students to Regional Forums, or perhaps 2 to local a Regional Forum and 1 or 2 to each of more distant Regional Forums
●Sponsor more lectures and presentations on campus.
●Stimulate a focus on human security and global sustainability issues
●As time passes and there are more fellows, and because the SYLFF Program has listened to some of our requests for support (JIP, etc) for fellows, there is a greater impact and understanding. Programs must take time to gain recognition
●Focus on each student's own original features and intellectual routes as the core of the learning process
●Increase higher education worldwide
●Enhance culture as an indispensable part of humanity
●Broaden and raise individual grant (this has been done in the January 2007 amendment by the MOU!) through new contacts with SYLFF institutions
●Award more students
●Continue the already existing programs
●Address the issue of Ph.D. programs
●Support INSEAD France and INSEAD Singapore as 2 institutions
●Register and use the SYLFF Database with the hope of starting new cooperation
●From the UWC perspective we need to increase the value of the SYLFF fellowships and, perhaps, allocate fewer fellowships. By reducing the number of fields for which the fellowship is allocated, it may increase its impact at UWC. This will help with sustaining a SYLFF Seminar since students will have greater interaction and more regular contact with each other.
●If the Program would foresee to support SYLFF-endowed universities to run (post) graduate programs together
●Organize workshops with fellows
●Use SYLFF at PhD level only and no longer Master
●Use the FMP/JIP/PDA to a greater extent and encourage SNP more
●Meet the different continual needs of institutions based on students and fellows
●Allow flexibility in bank investment to earn more in trust to find larger number of students.
●The better the content of research proposal is, the larger the possibility is to be chosen, and the quality of proposals has become much better
●Attract good students to the institution
●Expand the impact of SYLFF Program at universities. Since 2002, the number of graduated students at Lanzhou University increased rapidly, but the number of awarded graduates did not, so comparatively say, the impact of SYLFF decreased. This may be the situation for all institutions of higher education in China.
●Enhance visibility
10. How do you perceive the relationship between globalization of higher education and the SYLFF Program? (Check one and write-in the primary reason)
[Africa/Europe]
| Degree of relationship |
Primary reason |
| Significant |
19(73%) |
SYLFF is preparing your generation for challenges of rapidly changing a globalizing world.
Ensures international relationships between universities around the world (3).
SYLFF is a model for creative development of globalizing higher education.
SYLFF can provide means and corrective to the good and negative aspects of globalization respectively.
SYLFF program is older than the so called "globalization" of education.
SYLFF provide a network of the selected leading universities, which can increase cooperation at all level.
The relationship can cope with the challenges of today, through a direct and transparent approach: safety, immigration, local development, welfare, and all the other challenges of a constantly-evolving political and social world.
Mutual understanding by exchange (students, teachers, programs, getting to know each others). (2)
Enforcement of the development and implications of new ideas.
The program enables us to benefit from globalization. |
| Modest |
2( 7%) |
There seem to be more and more mobility program.
Even though we are celebrating 20 years of SYLFF, it is still very young compared to Fulbright and DAAD fellowships. The fact that the endowment is allocated to an institution and not directly to the student, may also reduce the value and potential prestigious nature of the fellowship. |
| Minor |
2( 7%) |
Became not engaged significantly in items in questions.
In the case of an arts institutions, as we are only 3 at present within SYLFF, the impact is not as large as for other SYLFF members. |
| None |
0( 0%) |
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| No answer |
3(12%) |
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[Asia/Pacific]
| Degree of relationship |
Primary reason |
| Significant |
14(67%) |
SYLFF has the structural linkages which should be more utilized to facilitate globalization among partners.
Possibility/availability of exchange programs and networking opportunities between SYLFF members.(5)
SYLFF program and globalization of higher education have mutual impacts on each other and promote each other. If they take advantage properly of each other, that could be a win-win situation.
Cultivating leadership for a better world.
SYLFF will be promoting the self-esteem appreciation of cultural values needed to force the challenges of globalization.
Enable network and student mobility.
Exchange of scholars |
| Modest |
7(33%) |
Timely and effective relationship/correspondence between the two (institutions).
SYLFF develop young leaders for globalization, but people participated are still limited.
SYLFF activities are epitome of globalization.
Being schools together to help fellows. |
| Minor |
0( 0%) |
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| None |
0( 0%) |
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[North/South America]
| Degree of relationship |
Primary reason |
| Significant |
12(92%) |
Providing opportunities for exchange programs between SYLFF institutions (3).
The combination of global penetration across-disciplines plus the fact that you are empowering top performers offers huge opportunity.
The SYLFF Program promotes globalization through its mission and by establishing a global network of institutions. Fellows became global by taking teaching positions at higher education in other countries. They exchange research with other faculty globally, attend conferences globally.
Similar goals - multicultural competence, skills to live and work in global society.
An important component of "globalization" in higher education is the building of multi-national networks. In this regard, SYLFF is a very important contributor.
Due to the fact that many of the participants have had the opportunity to work with students of other nationalities or to travel beyond their own national borders, and have hopefully increased their own understanding of issues, which by and large are not limited by national borders, and their understanding of other cultures and traditions.
Conception of network as a family. |
| Modest |
0( 0%) |
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| Minor |
1( 7%) |
The relationship is minor. It does not mean SYLFF influence is low. |
| None |
0( 0%) |
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