About the Fulbright Program

In 1946, Senator William J. Fulbright of Arkansas helped found an international scholarship program, in his words, to "foster...leadership, learning, and empathy between cultures....It is a modest program with an immodest aim--the achievement in international affairs of a regime more civilized, rational, and humane than the empty system of power in the past." The Fulbright Program operates in more than 155 countries, and offers grants for U.S. college students, foreign college students, foreign teachers of English, and a variety of scholar awards, some for research, some (like mine) for teaching. You may be a potential Fulbrighter; find out at www.fulbright.state.gov.