share their adventures
living in other countries
as Fulbright scholars.
Over 50 years ago, in 1946, Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas recognized the need to increase mutual understanding between citizens of the United States and those of other countries. Fulbright introduced legislation that would encourage such understanding through the exchange of knowledge and the building of personal relationships. The result of his legislation, widely known as the Fulbright Program, allows outstanding scholars, students and professionals from the United States to teach, do research or study in other countries and those from other countries to do so here. Since 1946, the program has engaged approximately 215,000 “Fulbrighters”
80,000 from the United States and 135,000 from abroad.In his book The Price of Empire, Senator Fulbright wrote, “The vital mortar to seal the bricks of world order is education across international boundaries, not with the expectation that knowledge would make us love each other, but in the hope that it would encourage empathy between nations, and foster the emergence of leaders whose sense of other nations and cultures would enable them to shape specific policies based on tolerance and rational restraint.”
by Kathie Dickenson
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