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EDUCATION REPORT - Fulbright Exchange Program Turns 60By Nancy Steinbach
Broadcast: Thursday, August 03, 2006
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
This week is the sixtieth anniversary1 of the Fulbright Program of international educational exchanges. On August first, nineteen forty-six, President Harry2 Truman signed legislation3 to create the program.
Fulbright grants4 are given to graduate students, to scholars and professionals, and to teachers and administrators5. Today about six thousand people each year receive grants. People come to the United States to study or teach, while Americans go to other countries.
The Fulbright program operates in about one hundred fifty countries. Around two hundred seventy-five thousand people have taken part over the years. Some have gone on to become Nobel Prize winners and leaders in areas like business, technology and politics.
Those who take part in the program are called Fulbright scholars or Fulbrighters. They receive money for travel, education and living costs. The program is paid for by the United States government and by foreign governments and private groups.
Thomas Farrell is a deputy6 assistant secretary in the State Department which supervises7 the program. He says that right now the number of American students who want to spend a year as a Fulbright scholar is at the highest point ever. And, he says, so is the number of Fulbright scholarships they are being awarded. The number is close to one thousand two hundred a year.
William Fulbright
In nineteen forty-six of Arkansas proposed8 the legislation to create the program. At that time, just after World War Two, he saw the idea as a way to improve world understanding.
Senator9 Fulbright thought exchanges would help people better understand other ways of life as well as their own. He believed the program could educate future world leaders.
You can learn more about the program online from the Bureau10 of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the State Department. We have a link to the Web site at www.unsv.com, where you can also download archives of our reports and listen online.
And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. A program note -- in September we will begin our Foreign Student Series. This is information about how to attend school in the United States. So please send us your questions. Write to [email protected]. We cannot answer mail personally, but we might answer your question during our series. I'm Steve Ember.
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