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MARCH 8 2006 EXCHANGES SUPPLEMENT
by Stacy Glassgold

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 STACY MICHELLE GLASSGOLD, THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY.

C.1) USG–FUNDED EXCHANGE PROGRAMS (SCROLL DOWN TO SECTION C.2 FOR OTHER TOPICS)
1. US FULBRIGHTERS WELCOMED TO NEW ZEALAND (SCOOP.CO.NZ, FEBRUARY 20TH 2006): Fulbright New Zealand next week welcomes 16 top American Fulbright graduate students, Ian Axford Fellows and Eisenhower Fellows to the country with a week-long orientation programme in Wellington. Nine recipients of prestigious 2006 Fulbright US Graduate Student Awards are arriving to undertake post-graduate study and research in fields as diverse as film-making, environmental studies, development studies, Antarctic studies, agriculture, ecology, resource planning and management, history and disability policy. 2006 US Fulbright Award recipients Fulbright US Graduate Student Awards are for promising US graduate students to undertake graduate study or research at a New Zealand institution.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0602/S00050.htm

2. GREEK AMERICAN RECEIVES FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIP (GREEK NEWS, FEBRUARY 13TH 2006): Haroula Spyropoulos, of Lincolnwood, Illinois, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Spain through the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. She is teaching part-time as part of the Fulbright, and working on her own film, as well as doing much writing and research. Among many of the activities she is involved in, she is organizing a conference for an NGO which will consist of policymakers, experts, and scholars to discuss issues relating to public diplomacy, transatlantic relations, and immigration within the EU.
http://www.greeknewsonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4440&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

3. FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR TO SPEAK ON ARAB-ISLAMIC ISSUES (DULUTH NEWS TRIBUNE, FEBRUARY 21ST 2006): Maati Monjib, Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence at Rainy River Community College, will speak about the Arab-Islamic world at Lake Superior College Wednesday. Monjib talk will include the topics “What is Islam,” “Women and Men in Islam,” and “Islam, Judaism and Christianity.”
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/13924664.htm

4. FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR, ERNEST GYIDEL LECTURES ON UKRAINIAN HISTORY (BRAMA, FEBRUARY 28TH 2006): The Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University will host a lunchtime lecture by Ernest Gyidel, Fulbright Scholar, titled, “National, Social and Situational: Revising the Civil War(s) in Post-imperial Russian South, 1918-1920.”
http://www.brama.com/calendar/caldisplay.pl?1140108073

5. EX-AMBASSADOR TO CHINA TO SPEAK AT COLBY COLLEGE, CHUIN-WEI YAP (CENTRAL MAINE MORNING SENTINEL, FEBRUARY 22ND 2006): One of the pivotal figures in U.S. relations with China, former Ambassador James Lilley, is slated to speak on the issue at Colby College on Thursday. Her lecture is entitled “The United States and China: Realities and Fantasies In Our Most Important Bilateral Relationship.” Colby spent last year on a Fulbright scholarship in China.
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/2459250.shtml

6. EX-ISM STUDENT WINS FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIP (TIMES OF OMAN, FEBRUARY 22ND 2006): Privahini Bradoo, a former student of the Indian School Muscat (ISM) has been the recipient of a rare Fulbright scholarship for her creative and innovative doctoral thesis in neuroscience submitted to the University of Auckland. Privahini has been awarded the ‘FulBright-Platinum Triangle’ scholarship in entrepreneurship for the year 2006. The scholarship, valued at $0.1 million, will fund Privahini Bradoo’s MBA at Harvard.
http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=26118&pn=local

7. COLLEGE HOPES TO RETAIN FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR FOR 2006-07 ACADEMIC YEAR, SARAH HORNER (THE FERGUS FALLS DAILY JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 23RD 2006): Minnesota State Community and Technical College is one step away from welcoming a Fulbright Scholar onto its staff for the 2006-2007 academic year. The college’s application requested a European visual artist or art historian to teach series of art-related courses to students on campus, including the preparatory classes for students enrolled in the college’s abroad program to Italy and Greece.
http://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/articles/2006/02/23/news/news05.txt

8. FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS RETURN WISER, INVIGORATED: JACKSON, NELSON SHARE THEIR FOREIGN EXPERIENCES, KIM COX (NORTH TEXAS DAILY, MARCH 1ST 2006): Timothy Jackson was one of two NT professors granted a Fulbright scholarship this year. Jackson went to Korea this past fall, where he taught musical analysis to graduate and doctoral students at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea. Erika Nelson of the foreign language and literature faculty traveled to Germany this past summer to attend a three-week Fulbright seminar called “Current Trends in German Literature.” http://www.ntdaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/03/01/440545885de8a

9. URUGUAY TEACHERS OBSERVE VALLEY SCHOOLS, MEGAN THOMAS (IDAHO MOUNTAIN EXPRESS, MARCH 1ST 2006): Silvia Correa, a dual immersion teacher from Uruguay. Correa believes that dual immersion programs enhance children’s view of possibilities through language. Correa arrived to Blaine County in February to expand her own horizons through a Fulbright educational exchange program. She arrived with Leticia Tourin, also of Uruguay, to shadow Blaine County teachers and administrators.
http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?issue_date=03-01-2006&ID=2005108450

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

10. EXPERTS SAY US IMMIGRATION POLICIES KEEP FOREIGN STUDENTS, WORKERS AWAY, MARGARET BESHEER (VOA, FEBRAURY 24TH 2006): Some lawyers and educators are calling for changes in U.S. immigration policies. They say current rules are too restrictive and discourage talented people from around the world from coming to the United States to study, teach and work. They worry that many of them will go to other countries instead, diminishing the United States’ ability to compete in many fields.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-02-24-voa4.cfm

11. UNITED STATES OPENS ITS DOORS WIDE OPEN FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS: VISA REQUIREMENTS GREATLY RELAXED, DAYA GAMAGE (ASIAN TRIBUNE, FEBRUARY 17TH 2006): The United States has extended the length of time foreign students may be issued student visas, and will issue student visas up to 120 days before classes begin, as compared to 90 days under previous regulations, the State Department announced. The State Department made this significant change due to vehement criticism by the nation’s premier universities lodged at far as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which said that the stringent visa policies adopted by the Department of State since the 9/11 attack on the American soil has discouraged foreign students applying for American universities.
http://www.asiantribune.com/show_news.php?id=17084

12. RADICAL ISLAMIST GIVEN STUDENT VISA—NOW AT YALE, WARNER TODD HUSTON (AMERICAN DAILY, MARCH 5TH 2006): John Fund of the Wall Street Journal has found an interesting story. Apparently, a radical Islamofascist has been given a student visa to “study” at Yale University. Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban government in Afghanistan, a man who toured the country to promote Islamofascism and anti-American propaganda, was issued a student Visa by the State Department. http://americandaily.com/article/12215

13. PAKISTANI STUDENTS GAIN NEW UNDERSTANDING OF AMERICAN CULTURE—CULTURAL EXCHANGE BREAKS DOWN STEREOTYPES, CORRECTS MISPERCEPTIONS, DAVID SHELBY (WASHINGTON FILE, FEBRUARY 15TH 2006): A cultural exchange trip to visit an American secondary school in Charleston, West Virginia, has changed some Pakistani students’ ideas about family life in the United States. Four students from Lahore, Pakistan traveled to the United States with one of their teachers to spend three weeks at Charleston’s Sissonville High School. They are participating in a program organized by the International Education and Resource Network (iEARN) and sponsored by the State Department’s Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs. http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=February&x=20060215115739ndyblehs0.9760706&t=livefeeds/wf-latest.html

14. PRESIDENT BUSH APPOINTS NEW MEMBERS TO THE VEF (VIETNAM NEWS, FEBRUARY 20TH 2006): US President George W Bush has appointed two new members to the board of directors of the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF), the White House announced on February 10. Trung Dung and Richard Wall, both of northern California, have long and active backgrounds in fields of education and management. They join an exceptional group of VEF Board members, which includes Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Treasury John Snow, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, and Senators John Kerry and Chuck Hagel.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=02EDU200206

15. CHINA, COLOMBIA START 1ST EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM (XINHUA, FEBRUARY 17TH 2006): A group of 21 Chinese students will study in 13 Colombian universities as part of the first-ever educational exchange program between China and Colombia. The program was a good start for education cooperation between the two countries, and will certainly play an important role in promoting cultural communication and friendship between the two peoples, said Marta Lucia Villegas Botero, a Colombian official in charge of the program.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/17/content_4192127.htm