First-year and transfer students in the College of Forestry and College of Agriculture Sciences, you can Get a Dam Passport! – for free, in fact. 

 

That is, if the FAFSA you filled out determines that you’re Pell-grant eligible. Otherwise, while plans to extend this program to other colleges at Oregon State University are developing, there is no clear timeline on them just yet.

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The Get a Dam Passport! program funds and assists new students with significant financial need in getting a passport for the first time, aiming to make study abroad opportunities more accessible and feasible.

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The OSU National and Global Scholarships Advising office joined the Institute of International Education Passport Project, which provides funding for Pell grant-eligible college students to get a passport for the first time.

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LeAnn Adam, the director of National and Global Scholarships Advising, partnered with the College of Forestry and College of Agricultural Sciences to submit a proposal to the OSU Internationalization Grant program for additional funding of Get a Dam Passport!, which was accepted this spring. 

 

“The goal of the program is to encourage more students to consider education abroad experiences,” Adam said. “Something like a passport is a big enabler towards thinking about doing another opportunity like study abroad or an internship abroad.”

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