ScholarForum: Alumni Update

This issue of ScholarForum focuses on the accomplishments of Scholarship Programs' alumni. Since the late 1980’s, when George Soros first began funding individual scholars, OSI has provided over 12,000 short and long-term scholarships to individuals from Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Mongolia, and Burma in graduate and undergraduate study programs. Programs focus on the humanities, with a special emphasis on social science disciplines such as human rights, social work, law, public health, and education.

The first section of this issue contains short profiles from a sampling of the thousands of individuals who have received scholarships, providing a snap-shot of their activities since finishing their grant. They are an impressive group, representing a broad spectrum of disciplines and professional interests, and sharing a common commitment to the improvement of the social, political, and intellectual environments of their home countries.

As always, the personal accounts section of ScholarForum is a place for longer works recounting grantee experiences living, studying, and working abroad. The regional focus section is devoted to the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, all of which are undergoing enormous change as they navigate their new roles within NATO and the European Union (which they will join in May 2004).

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