{"id":1760,"date":"2016-02-22T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/22\/furman-recognized-for-its-fulbright-students\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:56:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:56:04","slug":"furman-recognized-for-its-fulbright-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-recognized-for-its-fulbright-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman recognized for its Fulbright students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fulbright-top-producer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9039 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/fulbright-top-producer.jpg\" alt=\"fulbright-top-producer\" width=\"260\" height=\"260\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 260px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 260\/260;\" \/><\/a>Furman University has had four students named 2013-14 Fulbright Scholars, which places the university among the nation\u2019s top producers of students who participate in the U.S. government\u2019s flagship international educational exchange program.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Department of State, Furman\u2019s four Fulbright Scholars puts it among the nation\u2019s top 39 \u201cBachelor\u2019s\u201d institutions that produced Fulbright winners.\u00a0 A total of five Furman students applied for Fulbright awards in 2013-14, which gave the university the highest success rate (80%) of all bachelor\u2019s institutions that nominated students.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department recently announced the list of colleges and universities that produced the most 2013-2014 Fulbright Scholars, and the top-producing institutions were highlighted in the October 28 edition of the <i>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.\u00a0 Since its inception in 1946, more than 44,000 American students have benefited from the Fulbright experience.<\/p>\n<p>Furman education professor Scott Henderson serves as the university\u2019s Fulbright program adviser.\u00a0 Here are Furman\u2019s four current Fulbright Scholars, all of whom graduated in May 2013:<\/p>\n<p><b>Anna Bower<\/b> is a <i>magna cum laude<\/i> graduate in philosophy from Gainesville, Ga.\u00a0 She is teaching English in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sarah Johnson<\/b> is a <i>magna cum laude<\/i> graduate in Asian studies from Travelers Rest.\u00a0 She is teaching English in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p><b>Amanda Michalski<\/b> is a <i>summa cum laude<\/i> graduate in political science and German studies from Kingsport, Tenn. \u00a0She is teaching in Germany.<\/p>\n<p><b>Anastasia (&#8220;Anya&#8221;) Spratley<\/b> is a <i>magna cum laude<\/i> graduate in history from York.\u00a0 She is teaching English in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Fulbright Program, visit the State Department <b><a href=\"http:\/\/eca.state.gov\/fulbright\">website<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman has had four students named 2013-14 Fulbright Scholars, which places the university among the nation\u2019s top producers of students who participate in the U.S. government\u2019s flagship international educational exchange program.\u00a0A total of five Furman students applied for Fulbright awards in 2013-14, which gave the university the highest success rate (80%) of all bachelor\u2019s institutions that nominated students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}