Surprised that Fulbright scholarships are still a thing, given DOGE. Cultural exchange programs seems like something the current US administration would get a severe rash from.
Surprised that Fulbright scholarships are still a thing, given DOGE. Cultural exchange programs seems like something the current US administration would get a severe rash from.
To me it seems out of step with US foreign policy.
Like all US institutions that support higher education and diversity, the Trump administration is attacking it:
Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/politics/fulbright-boa...
Education Dept. Cancels Fulbright-Hays Applications, at Least for Now: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/study-abroad/2025...
Association of International Educators warns students won’t want to come to the US https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/association-international-ed...
It was really close. Check out https://fulbright.org/status
Trump's draft 2026 budget in May would have cut its funding by 93%. In June, the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the whole board, resigned in protest, because the Trump administration was meddling and trying to remove funding for certain foreigners and to add new inspections for scholars who were wrong in some unspecified way. Fortunately, the funding got back into the draft bill in mid-July.
Exactly. If you like it, don't draw attention to it.