---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4027"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4027"
heading: "Visiting Scholars Program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4027"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter VII — Career Development, Training, and Orientation"
---

# §4027. Visiting Scholars Program

- (a) **Establishment of program—** There is authorized to be established at the institution a program whereby selected scholars would participate fully in the educational and training activities of the institution. This program may be referred to as the “Visiting Scholars Program”.
- (b) **Selection and appointment of scholars—**
  - (1) Scholars participating in the Visiting Scholars Program shall be selected by a five-member board described in [subsection (c)](#c).
  - (2) Each visiting scholar shall serve a term of one year, except that such term may be extended for one additional one-year period.
- (c) **Establishment of selection board—** The board referred to in [subsection (b)](#b) shall be composed of the Director of the institution, who shall serve as chairperson, and four other members appointed by the Secretary of State.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 707, as added Pub. L. 101–246, title I, § 144(a), Feb. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 36; amended Pub. L. 103–236, title I, § 126(3), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 394.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Subsecs. (a), (c). Pub. L. 103–236 substituted “institution” for “Foreign Service Institute” and “Institute” in subsec. (a) and “institution” for “Foreign Service Institute” in subsec. (c).