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I learned so much about the student experience, higher education, and the employment process in Japan, and I became much more familiar with Japanese culture in general – the insight I gained has already been useful on the job this year. In addition to meeting all the generous and enlightening Japanese educators/administrators, one of the unexpected highlights of the program for me was getting to

Dr. Allen Palmer Brigham Young University Namibia, 2004 In 2004, I received a Fulbright Scholar grant to Namibia for lecturing in journalism at Polytechnic of Namibia in the capital city Windhoek. I was a professor of communication at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. My wife, Dr. Loretta Palmer, who is a professor at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah accompanied me. When my wife and I

What key challenges do American institutions of higher education face in internationalization? How can administrators and faculty work together to address these issues? “ Internationalization in Action ,” a series by the American Council on Education’s Center for Internationalization and Global Engagement , presents a selection of effective approaches to engaging faculty in the process of

By Andreas Schneider (Ph.D., Indiana University) Associate Professor of Sociology Texas Tech University During my Fulbright grant in Thailand, I sought evidence of how social support creates situations in which people achieve positive identities, a process instrumental in rendering their subjective experience of pain. To study the rendering of pain, I interviewed the Ma Song, a group of religious

By Professor Mohammed Rawwas University of Northern Iowa Professor of Marketing My Fulbright in Brazil, where I taught and conducted research in business and marketing, stands out as one of my best teaching experiences. I enjoyed the company of the university’s warm and helpful administration, professors, and students. The International Director made every effort to make my family and my visit

From April 10-13, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs , in coordination with the Vermont Council on World Affairs , and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars , will host a Fulbright Enrichment Seminar in Burlington, VT, for approximately 65 Fulbright Visiting Scholars from more than 35 countries. Vermont has long been recognized as a leader in

“My Fulbright experience has certainly changed my life and has helped immensely in furthering my career. The impact was evident in the responses I received for applications to new positions after my Fulbright research was complete. I ended up taking a very prestigious position for my next postdoc which I would not have been able to get had it not been for the Fulbright award. This is the kind of

This blog post originally appeared in EDUCAUSE Review Online and is republished here courtesy of the author, Meg Stewart. “The world is changing. Our disciplines are changing. Our students are changing. But is higher education keeping pace?...For education to do better we cannot just keep doing the same things.” — Diana Oblinger Professional development within and around international educational

The Fulbright Scholar Program offers teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in over 125 countries for the 2014-2015 academic year. Opportunities are available for college and university faculty and administrators as well as for professionals, artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent scholars and many others. In order to meet the changing needs of academia and

We are pleased to announce the addition of France and the United Kingdom to the Fulbright International Education Administrator Seminars . The IEA seminars are designed for U.S. higher education administrators who are interested in spending an intensive two-week seminar in one of six countries: India, Japan, Korea, Germany, France, or the United Kingdom. Each seminar offers participants an in