ATA Fellows: Objectives

• To enable higher education in the United States, Turkey, and Armenia.

• To develop and broaden U.S., Turkish, and Armenian institutional cooperation through exchanges of students, faculty members and administrators for the purposes of study, teaching, research and outreach.
  
• To increase understanding between the U.S., Turkey and Armenia through cooperation.
  
• To reinforce the impact of other Department of State programs, including Fulbright.
  
• To support the current foreign policy priorities of the Department of State, especially efforts to promote the normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia, and to improve educational outreach to non-elite populations.