[HN Gopher] The Fulbright Program: Chock Full of Bright Ideas
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The Fulbright Program: Chock Full of Bright Ideas
Author : Pseudomanifold
Score : 57 points
Date : 2025-08-03 13:24 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| jalk wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Exactly. If you like it, don't draw attention to it.
| thomassmith65 wrote:
| "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.
| ailef wrote:
| To me it seems out of step with US foreign policy.
| ModernMech wrote:
| 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...
| CobrastanJorji wrote:
| It was really close. Check out https://fulbright.org/status
|
| Trump's draft 2026 budget in May would have cut its funding by
| 93%. In June, the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the
| whole board, resigned in protest, because the Trump
| administration was meddling and trying to remove funding for
| certain foreigners and to add new inspections for scholars who
| were wrong in some unspecified way. Fortunately, the funding
| got back into the draft bill in mid-July.
| yapyap wrote:
| Beautiful blogpost and I wholly agree with the message of not
| scrapping everything going on today because you can't see
| immediate growth from it.
|
| It's like if the USA was a house, Donald Trump and his goons are
| cancelling all the utilities without realising (1) that in a
| month the water will be shut off and the entire house will start
| smelling like shit.
|
| 1. or probably without caring, it's easy to misattribute malice
| for stupidity when the actions being taken are THIS malicious but
| that's what's going on. I don't necessarily think Donald Trump is
| this stupid but I think he is just very very malicious. Though at
| the end of the day it doesn't really matter whether he is stupid
| or malicious or both, the consequences of what he is doing won't
| change depending on intentions.
| dhosek wrote:
| The level of trashing federal government programs that's taken
| place in the last 7 months is just mind-boggling. I don't think
| I'll live long enough to see the damage undone.
| Spooky23 wrote:
| There's a dozen people with their fingers in the policy pie.
| End of the day, the people calling the shots don't believe in
| America as it was, and are creating a new era with their
| application of federal power.
|
| The end of the post-WW2 American era has arrived, and looking
| at the state of the opposition, it's not coming back. The
| courts have essentially executed a constitutional change which
| will have far reaching impact.
|
| The smart move now is to figure out what that means to you and
| your family. Trump is a narcissist with obvious limitations.
| The true threat is a more organized sociopath, backed by the
| rulings of a young, craven federal judiciary, and what
| monstrous stuff is truly possible.
|
| Everything Nixon did is legal now, and no doubt worse stuff is
| happening.
| k2xl wrote:
| Met my current best friend 15 years ago at Georgia Tech. He was a
| Fulbright scholar from Turkey studying architecture. Really glad
| this program existed!
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