October 20th, 2006 | Hunter College
Hunter College is highlighted in the October 20 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education for the success of its students in winning highly sought-after Fulbright awards.
Hunter — with four Fulbright scholars for the 2006-07 academic year — appears on the “Top Producing” schools list of Master’s Institutions having the highest number of U.S. Fulbright students this year, according to The Chronicle.
The Hunter students who won Fulbrights include Alice Arnold, a graduate student in the MFA program in Integrated Media Arts who won a Fulbright Grant for a video project in Hong Kong; Sarah Osewalt, a June 2006 graduate, who is teaching English in South Korea; Erica Seppala, a graduate student in the School of Education’s Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages program who is teaching English in Spain; and Carla Minami, a June graduate who is teaching English as a foreign language to German students.
Begun in 1946, the Fulbright Program — founded by the late Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright and sponsored by the U.S. State Department as well as governments in other countries — has provided the opportunity for top students to study aboard and exchange ideas with other cultures.
It now operates in more than 150 countries and is considered one of the most prestigious academic award programs in the world.