With all due respect, I don't want to study Esperanto in University, so please don't tell me about the impossibilities of getting a degree in the Epseranto language.

Universities have Basketball scholarships because it makes the university look better.

Is there such thing as an Esperanto scholarship (a scholarship for esperantists that wish to study a subject other than Esperanto) to make the university look better?

What about a fellowship or assistantship?

Schools offer basketball scholarships because they can make a lot of money off of sports. Esperanto does not make money and it is not considered a prestigious thing to study. In fact, if you tell a university linguistics department that you want to study it, they will probably laugh at you.

Short answer - no, nothing like that exists, and I do not expect it to exist within my lifetime.

Alkanadi:Universities have Basketball scholarships because it makes the university look better.

Is there such thing as an Esperanto scholarship to make the university look better?

What about a fellowship or assistantship?

The other problem is finding a PhD in Linguistics or some other language (or language related discipline) who also speaks Esperanto WITH some kind of certification from an accredited source that his Esperanto is up to snuff. I doubt if any such person exists..........of course if anyone wants to finance my PhD in 2nd Language Acquisition here at the U of Iowa and then send me to NASK (or else San Marino).................

I could be wrong but probably most German esperantists of ISo generacio learnt Esperanto at university courses. So, I wouldn't name it scholarship, but some universities allowed to use university facilities for free (or small charge) to teach esperanto.

No one needs a certification to prove that their Esperanto is up to snuff. All it takes is a simple short conversation and it becomes obvious. Professors of English literature don't go around waving their certificate that says they speak English fluently. This fact becomes obvious as soon as you interact with them even minimally.

There are certainly people involved in the academic world, in linguistics or related disciplines, who are very eminent Esperantists, and their studies may even include some Esperanto-related research topics, but I have never heard of anyone being able to build their entire research career off of nothing but Esperanto.

John Wells is a good example. He's well known among Esperantists for his dictionary but among the world at large, he is an accomplished phonetician and the author of a well-known pronunciation dictionary. Eckhard Bick is researcher in computational linguistics who has done great things for Esperanto in that field, but also has research interests in the field that don't relate to Esperanto.

erinja:No one needs a certification to prove that their Esperanto is up to snuff. All it takes is a simple short conversation and it becomes obvious. Professors of English literature don't go around waving their certificate that says they speak English fluently. This fact becomes obvious as soon as you interact with them even minimally.

There are certainly people involved in the academic world, in linguistics or related disciplines, who are very eminent Esperantists, and their studies may even include some Esperanto-related research topics, but I have never heard of anyone being able to build their entire research career off of nothing but Esperanto.

John Wells is a good example. He's well known among Esperantists for his dictionary but among the world at large, he is an accomplished phonetician and the author of a well-known pronunciation dictionary. Eckhard Bick is researcher in computational linguistics who has done great things for Esperanto in that field, but also has research interests in the field that don't relate to Esperanto.

Sorry but if you plan to teach a foreign language at a university or college, you dang well can be sure you'll be asked for certification that you in fact speak the language you plan to teach, any "simple, short conversation" that "makes it obvious" notwithstanding.

MrMosier:

erinja:No one needs a certification to prove that their Esperanto is up to snuff. All it takes is a simple short conversation and it becomes obvious. Professors of English literature don't go around waving their certificate that says they speak English fluently. This fact becomes obvious as soon as you interact with them even minimally.

There are certainly people involved in the academic world, in linguistics or related disciplines, who are very eminent Esperantists, and their studies may even include some Esperanto-related research topics, but I have never heard of anyone being able to build their entire research career off of nothing but Esperanto.

John Wells is a good example. He's well known among Esperantists for his dictionary but among the world at large, he is an accomplished phonetician and the author of a well-known pronunciation dictionary. Eckhard Bick is researcher in computational linguistics who has done great things for Esperanto in that field, but also has research interests in the field that don't relate to Esperanto.

Sorry but if you plan to teach a foreign language at a university or college, you dang well can be sure you'll be asked for certification that you in fact speak the language you plan to teach, any "simple, short conversation" that "makes it obvious" notwithstanding.

+1.

Alkanadi:Is there such thing as an Esperanto scholarship.

No. Scholarships are only given for study in established subjects for which there are already university departments and professors. In which subject did you major?

MrMosier:
Sorry but if you plan to teach a foreign language at a university or college, you dang well can be sure you'll be asked for certification that you in fact speak the language you plan to teach, any "simple, short conversation" that "makes it obvious" notwithstanding.

That is true for the most part, but what would the Esperanto certification be for? There are no Esperanto teaching jobs in universities.

I have a vague memory of there being all sorts of scholarships at the Oxford Colleges, with often bizarre qualifications for getting the scholarship - like for example being the son of a Welsh vicar.

I imagine that anybody who has the money can endow a scholarship and specify who may get it.

See this for the Buchanan bequest to Liverpool University.