The Fulbright Program: Chock Full of Bright Ideas

https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2025/fulbright/

16•Pseudomanifold•2h ago

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jalk•52m ago

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.

esafak•43m ago

Exactly. If you like it, don't draw attention to it.

thomassmith65•23m ago

  “The Fulbright Program's mission is to bring a little 
  more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more
  compassion into world affairs and thereby increase the
  chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace 
  and friendship.” — Senator J. William Fulbright

Yes, that seems out of step with the MAGA era.

ModernMech•11m ago

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...

WasimBhai•30m ago

trallnag•5m ago

I'm surprised, isn't the funding freeze still ongoing?

> Through the Fulbright Program, we all got to meet someone we would not have met otherwise. Through the Fulbright Program, we created connections that would not have happened otherwise. Through the Fulbright Program, we have all been intellectually enriched.

How does the USA profit from this? Should the American tax payers really be paying for this? Could be better off in the hands of philanthropic billionaires (Soros, Bezos), for example.

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