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Published: APR 29, 2005 - 10:00AM PDT

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APRIL 29, 2005 EXCHANGES SUPPLEMENT
by Gordon Douglas

C) WEEKLY EXCHANGES SUPPLEMENT

The following articles are related to educational and cultural exchange programs. Specific topics in this supplement include USG-funded exchange programs (e.g., Fulbright scholarships, Ron Brown Fellowship, International Visitors) as well as issues relating to student visas, study abroad, and NGOs involved in exchanges. The articles are aggregated weekly by MR. GORDON DOUGLAS, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

C.1) USG–FUNDED EXCHANGE PROGRAMS (SCROLL DOWN TO SECTION C.2 FOR OTHER TOPICS)

1. FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIP GOING TO CGA CADET FOR FIRST TIME SINCE ‘86 – ROBERT A. HAMILTON (THE DAY, APRIL 27, 2005): Coast Guard Academy Cadet 1st Class Stephen M. Elliott is the first cadet in almost 20 years, and the third in the school’s history, to win a Fulbright scholarship to do graduate research abroad. While his classmates are heading off to cutters in Boston, San Diego and Miami this summer, Elliott will be packing his bags for a 10-month stay on Mauritius, where he will help set up a system for monitoring the health of the coral reefs around the island nation.
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=8CB0FDF7-05A6-4A8B-A721-A43ED86B8500

2. FIRST EVER MALDIVIAN WINS FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIP TO AMERICA – (MINIVAN NEWS, APRIL 26, 2005): Mohamed Maleeh Jamal has become the first Maldivian to be awarded a Fulbright Fellowship from the United States, a move the US Embassy there called “an important milestone of cultural and educational exchange.” Ambassador Jeffery J. Lunstead and Cultural Affairs Officer Angela L. Gemza congratulated Maleeh in Colombo as he departed for the US to start his Masters degree program. In January 2005, the first two American Fulbright scholars, professors from North Carolina Central University and Dartmouth College, arrived in Male’. http://www.minivannews.com/news/news.php?id=577

3. FIVE HOLY CROSS STUDENTS EARN PRESTIGIOUS FULBRIGHT AWARDS – PRESS RELEASE (COLLEGE OF THE HOLLY CROSS, APRIL 26, 2005): Five seniors at the College of the Holly Cross in Massachusetts recently received Fulbright awards to teach and conduct research in foreign countries upon their graduation from the College. Conor Devine, an English major in the pre-med program will head to Korea; Carly Fowler, a history major and German minor has been awarded a grant to work and study in Austria; Russian major Meagan Gorman, and Jennifer Hughes, a history major with a minor in Russian, have both been awarded grants to work in Russia. Megan Osborne, an anthropology and history double major with a concentration in Asian Studies, has been awarded a grant to work and study in Singapore.
http://www.holycross.edu/publicaffairs/press_releases/05_04_26

4. SDSU STUDENTS WIN FULBRIGHT AWARDS TO STUDY ABROAD IN 2005-06 – (SDSUNIVERSE, APRIL 25, 2005): Three San Diego State University students who have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships for the 2005-06 academic year will teach and study in Germany, the Netherlands and Oaxaca, Mexico.Though dozens of SDSU professors have taught or conducted research abroad through the Fulbright Scholar program, the students are the first successful candidates from San Diego State to be accepted to the Program. Students at the University are increasingly choosing to study abroad. About 1,200 students went overseas to study during this academic year, a 500% increase in five years. San Diego State University ranks second in the nation in terms of students studying abroad.
http://www.sdsuniverse.info/story.asp?id=29577

5. TEACHERS PREPARE FOR FULBRIGHT TRIP TO JAPAN – MARISA MALDONADO (WINDSOR HEIGHTS HERALD, APRIL 22, 2005): Robert Seda-Schreiber, an art teacher at the Kreps school, and Franco Paoletti, a science teacher at Hightstown High School in New Jersey will visit Japan in the fall of 2005. Both won their trips through the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund, which gives 100 teachers nationwide the chance to explore Japanese culture, society and technology and integrate the findings into their American classrooms. “You can’t get any farther from there to here,” Mr. Seda-Schreiber said. “That’s one of the most exciting things about it.”
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14396893&BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=425728&rfi=6

6. LANGUAGE SKILLS KEPT ARRIVAL AFLOAT - ANA VECIANA-SUAREZ (MIAMI HERALD, APRIL 23, 2005): Ariel Gil never thought his fluency in Russian would open doors in the United States. But that’s exactly what it did. Soon after he arrived alone from Cuba at age 20, Gil moved to Queens, N.Y. where he eventually landed a job at a school for Russian immigrants. All along, he had his sights on one thing: an education. Studying at Columbia University, he earned his master’s degree, and last summer he studied in Bulgaria as a Fulbright Scholar.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/11459406.htm

C.2) OTHER NEWS ON EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE ISSUES

7. PAKISTAN, GREECE INKED CULTURAL EXCHANGE AGREEMENT – (PAKISTAN LINK, APRIL 25, 2005): Wishing to further friendly relations and cooperation in the fields of education, science, culture, and sports, an agreement was signed between the governments of Pakistan and Greece for the years 2005-2007. Both countries agreed to extend cooperation in the fields of education and science by encouraging cooperation between the universities in both the countries and to cooperate in the fields of archives and Libraries.
http://www.pakistanlink.com/Headlines/Apr05/25/03.htm

8. THE’S NEVER FULLY AT HOME – ERICA NOONAN (MIAMI HERALD, APRIL 24, 2005): Book Review: American journalist Azadeh Moaveni has been ensnarled by cultural pressures, first as an Iranian girl raised in the United States, and later as an American woman living in Tehran. Her book, Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran, discusses how she was driven to explore her cultural heritage, accepted a Fulbright fellowship to study in Egypt, and eventually became a reporter for Time on the Middle East.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/books/11469570.htm

9. CENTRAL IS STOP FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATORS – RICK LONGMAN (ORIVILLE MERCURY-REGISTER, APRIL 23, 2005): A contingent of foreign school principals visited Central Middle School on Thursday for a look at American education with a California style. About 15 administrators from Armenia and the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan were charmed by Central Principal Rick Hilliard whom one described as one of the “most colorful and interesting principals he’d met in the United States.” The group was part of a national American Councils for International Education tour hosted by California State University, Chico for a trip to schools in Northern California.
http://www.orovillemr.com/Stories/0,1413,157~26686~2832221,00.html

10. EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMME WITH US – TARIQ SAEED (PAKISTAN TIMES, APRIL 21, 2005): Education and Research Programme has this year planned to dispatch some 45 Pakistani students to different cities of the United States under the Youth Exchange and Study Programme. While the Programme claims the whole exercise is aimed at promoting mutual respect, tolerance and understanding together with excellence in education and leadership through such kind of “exchanges,” the element of exchange is literally missing in it as the US students are yet to land in Pakistan under the same program.
http://pakistantimes.net/2005/04/21/oped3.htm

11. U.S. SPONSORS MORE STUDENTS – SYEDA SULTANA RIZVI (DAILY TARGUM, APRIL 21, 2005): Government-sponsored foreign-student exchange programs have seen an increase of 227 percent since Sept. 11, and the number of students and scholars the U.S. government funds has risen to 10,111 in the previous school year, compared to 3,085 two years ago in 2002-03. These figures stand in sharp contrast to a general downward trend in the number of foreign students and scholars, however. While U.S.-sponsored students figures increased, overall student-exchange program enrollment continues to dip, reaching a 25-year low during the 2003-04 school year.
http://www.dailytargum.com/news/2005/04/21/PageOne/U.Sponsors.More.Students-932357.shtml

12. CULTURAL EXCHANGE OFFERS HOUSTON A FRENCH CONNECTION –EVERETT EVANS (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, APRIL 20, 2005): Residents of Lyon, France, will be in Houston April 21-29, representing Lyon’s arts community to Houston audiences for a cultural exchange dubbed “Lyon via Houston.” The series is presented by the French Consulate of Houston and the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts, an organization formed in January to promote cultural exchange between France and Texas.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/ae/art/3144941