BACKGROUND

The Clark International Foundation provides scholarships and loans for two groups of internationals.

Group One are outstanding and ambitious international students or professional people who desire to attend American graduate schools for graduate or post-graduate work and who meet the admissions requirements with the exception of the English language requirement. Such internationals need to be able to succeed in competitive graduate study along side native speakers of English and, therefore, may need help in getting the necessary score on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or another instrument designed to measure language skill for graduate matriculation or may need more practice in academic English speaking, listening, reading, and writing or a period of time for acculturation in the United States in order to succeed in graduate study. Most universities do not provide financial assistance for language study nor do they award graduate stipends, scholarships, or assistantships before a student is fully admissible. Clark International Foundation scholarships enable these students to become fully admissible to the university of their choice.

Group Two are immigrants and refugees who have excellent academic and professional training in their home countries and languages but who arrive in the United States without adequate knowledge of and facility in American English to be able to use their expertise and enter their profession in the US.

The Clark International Foundation has been established to provide a financial means for deserving individuals in both of these groups to work toward their goals by improving their English language proficiency.