Title 20, EducationRelease 119-102
§4509 Fellowship Conditions
Title 20 › CHAPTER 57 — JAMES MADISON MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM › § 4509
Summary
The Foundation will keep paying a Madison Fellow only while it finds the student is making good progress in an approved course of study or research. Junior fellows must spend essentially full time on their studies or research. The Foundation can require fellows to file reports when and how it decides. Reports must include a signed note from an approved school official saying the student is making good progress, unless the Foundation allows an exception.
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Title 20, §4509
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(a)A student awarded a Madison Fellowship shall continue to receive payments only during such periods as the Foundation finds that the student is maintaining satisfactory progress in an approved program of study or research. Recipients of junior fellowships shall devote essentially full time to their program of study.
(b)The Foundation is authorized to require reports from any fellowship recipient containing such information, in such form, and to be filed at such times as the Foundation determines to be necessary. Such reports shall be accompanied by a certificate from an appropriate official at the institution of higher education, approved by the Foundation, stating that such student is making satisfactory progress in a program of study or research, with such exceptions as the Foundation may establish.
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Codification Pub. L. 99–591 is a corrected version of Pub. L. 99–500.
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20 U.S.C. § 4509
Title 20, Education
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102