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Shep in Rio during his Fulbright year

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…

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The Bald Eagle

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….

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Kevin F F Quigley and Bruce B Svare

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…

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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…

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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…

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Identifying the course goal

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…

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Exploring Glencoe, Scotland

The United States and Scotland Have a Lot to Learn From Each Other About Access to Higher Education

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 3 (2023) AuthorCatherine Devlin AbstractMy experience teaching Scottish high school students during my Fulbright year guides my disappointment regarding the recent United States Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action. Working as a tutor for Widening Participation – a program which provides adjusted entrance requirements for underserved students – showed me…

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The author (in the required work uniform) recording behavior in the pig barn at INRA in Nouzilly, France.

Pigging Out in France

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 3 (2023) AuthorElizabeth Adkins-Regan AbstractI spent a year in France with the help of a Fulbright Award. As a life scientist and animal researcher, my primary aim was to carry out a collaborative experiment with my host on a topic of mutual interest, sexual development in animals, specifically pigs. That…

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Umi Saidah, observing intercultural interactions to promote intercultural competence on metaverse, Spring 2023.

Beyond Brick-and-Mortar Education: Using Metaverse for Intercultural Interactions to Promote Mutual Understanding

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 3 (2023) AuthorUmi H. Saidah AbstractFostering mutual understanding across cultures is always Fulbright’s primary mission. This article describes how metaverse can contribute to this goal through intercultural interactions between avatar-context-avatar representing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Indonesia, a native instructor in the United States, and digital objects…

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Host university international students at Parade of Nations

A Fulbright Stay at Michigan Technical University: A Life-Changing and Career-Altering Experience

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 3 (2023) AuthorAdele Dzikwi Garkida AbstractMy first trip to the United States was the result of a Fulbright Scholarship Award to Michigan Technological University in 2005-06. It was a life-transforming experience that boosted my teaching, research, leadership capacities, and social skills. The award gave me the opportunity to meet and…

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