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Foreign
Student Series #13 >Fulbright Program
By Nancy Steinbach
December 12, 2002
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
We continue our series of reports about how
foreign students can study at an American college or university. This
information also can be found on the Special English Web page at www.voaspecialenglish.com.
Last week, we gave information about financial
aid for foreign students. Today, we will tell about a special educational
program that began more than fifty years ago. It is called the Fullbright
Program.
The Fulbright Program of the United States government
helps people study or do research in other countries. Senator J. William
Fulbright established the program in nineteen-forty-six. He believed
that international exchange was a good way to improve world understanding.
He also believed the program could educate future world leaders.
Senator Fulbright thought that living and learning
in another country would help people understand other ideas and ways
of life. And he thought the experience would help them understand their
own country, too.
More than two-hundred-thirty-thousand students,
teachers and researchers have taken part in the Fulbright Program. Some
of them later became famous. Two examples are the former secretary general
of the United Nations, Boutros Boutros-Ghali and the former official
poet of the United States, Rita Dove.
Those who take part in the program are called
Fulbright Scholars. Americans study or teach in foreign countries. People
from other nations study and work in the United States. Fulbright Scholars
receive enough money to pay for travel, education and living costs.
The program is paid for by the United States government, governments
of other countries, and private groups.
Nearly five-thousand Fulbright grants are awarded
each year for American and foreign students, teachers, professors and
professionals. The program is organized by the Bureau of Educational
and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State. It operates
in one-hundred-forty countries.
You can get information about the Fulbright
Program at the United States Embassy in your country. Or use a computer
to get the details. Just type fulbrightprogram into an Internet search
engine and you will find the Web site.
This VOA Special English EDUCATION REPORT was
written by Nancy Steinbach.
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