The Fulbright Scholarship program awards grants to college seniors and graduate students to study abroad. The program was named for Sen. William Fulbright from Arkansas. Fulbright was considered a foreign policy expert. The program has benefited thousands of students and, as a byproduct, has had a positive impact on U.S. foreign relations.
Now the State Department has halted the program in response to Elon Musk’s cutbacks. Students have been stranded in foreign countries with no money to get home.
At one time this would have been front page news. Now so much mismanagement and chaos is occurring that the story ran on page 22 of the New York Times.
See Vimal Patel, “Fulbright Scholars Cut Off From Funding,” New York Times, (9 Mar. 2025), p.22.
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