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Dr. Heinz outside of the Dooradoyle Raheen Men’s Shed in Limerick City, Ireland

A Fulbright Experience in Ireland: Finding a New Medium to Tell the Stories of Irish Men’s Sheds Members

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorMelinda Heinz AbstractAs a Fulbright Scholar in Ireland, I learned about Irish Men’s Sheds and how they impacted the well-being of older men. Hearing the stories from Men’s Shed members inspired me to share their stories on a wider scale. After returning to the US, I collaborated with…

Iiris Happo and Lacey Hoppe, Early Education Center Director at MSUM Early Education Center, Minnesota

Early Childhood Care and Education in Minnesota and Finland: Similarities and Differences

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorIiris Happo Abstract I was fortunate to receive a Fulbright scholarship to share my early childhood education expertise in West Central Minnesota. The main goals were to collaborate with partners in West Central Initiative Foundation while they were developing their early care and education system and to teach…

Adina with the Kent State University professors and organizers of the Fulbright TEA program

Fulbright TEA Alumni Collaboration: Making an Impact

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorAdina Ionescu AbstractThe Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement (Fulbright TEA) Program I attended in 2022 was an opportunity for me to connect with other teachers with the same interests from Europe and Asia and to organize a project focused on creating sustainable futures. All the participants (teachers and…

Introducing the concept of “Nothing About Us Without Us” to my students in the Gulf

Nothing About Us Without Us: A Fulbright Research Scholar Paves the Road to Embrace the Disability with Dignity

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorAlexander Woodman Abstract As a Fulbright research scholar at the School of Medicine, AGU (Bahrain), I became genuinely interested in how “Nothing About Us Without Us” concept is perceived in Bahrain, one of the most inclusive countries for people with disabilities. I started a series of qualitative studies…

How an Errant Fulbright Shaped My Personal and Professional Life

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorShepard Forman AbstractSerendipity and opportunism enabled this unmoored young man to acquire a Fulbright-Hays fellowship in Brazil from 1961-62. The fellowship was marked by a clash of wills between my insistence on “learning by living” and the Fulbright Commissioner’s strict interpretations of the contractual nature of my Fulbright…

A National Bird and an International Message

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorDaniel Hopkins The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird by Jack E. Davis, who was a Fulbright Scholar to Jordan in 2002. Jack E. Davis has enjoyed a celebrated career as an environmental historian since his time as a Fulbright Scholar to Jordan over twenty years ago….

Can the Fulbright Program Play a Role in Helping Higher Education Find New Value and Purpose?

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorsBruce Svare and Kevin F. F. Quigley From time to time, a book comes along that changes your thinking on a particular topic and provides a roadmap for solving a vexing societal problem. Such is the case with Whatever it is, I’m Against it: Resistance to Change in Higher…

Learning from College-in-Prison Programs

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorDavid Stoloff Gellman, Mneesha, ed. Education Behind the Wall: Why and How We Teach College in Prison. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press. 230 pages. $35.00. As a Professor of Education at Eastern Connecticut State University, our state’s designated public liberal arts college, I appreciated Education Behind the Wall for its introduction…

Reel Life Consequences of Suicidality in Film

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorKate Brennan Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes and Consequences by Alessandra Seggi, who was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar from Italy to The New School, New York City, 1999-2000. Like all art forms, film often reflects real life. However, in Youth and Suicide in American Cinema, author Alessandra…

Australia’s Fulbright Leadership Development Program: Supporting Alumni to Generate Systems Change

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 3 (2023) AuthorIain Butterworth, Angela Heise, and Jon Adams AbstractFulbright alumni often return home with visions of leading personal, institutional, and societal change. However, they often face challenges in implementing social entrepreneurship. This paper introduces the Australian Fulbright Leadership Development Program, emphasizing the transformative learning styles that are needed to…