General objectives guiding the activities of ATA Fellows:
- To enable higher education in the U.S., Turkey and Armenia with similar educational missions to develop and broaden 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 in higher education;
- 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.
