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1997-1998
Overview
The Fulbright Program is funded and administered
by the United States Information Agency. Funding
is also provided by participating governments
and by host institutions in the United States
and abroad. The presidentially appointed J. William
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board is responsible
for providing policy guidance for the program
and making the final selection of all grantees.
The Council for International Exchange of Scholars
(CIES) is a private organization that facilitates
international exchange in higher education. Under
a grant from the United States Information Agency,
CIES cooperates in the administration of the Fulbright
Scholar Program.
In 1947 the Board of Foreign Scholarships asked
the Conference Board of Associated Research Councils,
a national body that represents the American academic
community, to establish CIES to help implement
the newly passed Fulbright Act. The members of
the Conference Board are the American Council
of Learned Societies, the American Council of
Education, the National Academy of Sciences, and
the Social Science Research Council. For administrative
purposes CIES is affiliated with the Institute
of International Education.
The staff of CIES, headed by an executive director,
carries out day-to-day operations under the supervision
of a 14-member board appointed by the four councils
of the Conference Board. Committees composed of
college and university professors, as well as
professionals, all of whom serve without compensation,
review applications of both American and foreign
scholars. Committee appointments are made by the
appropriate national council of the Conference
Board.
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Conference
Board of Associated Research Councils
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American Council
of Learned Societies
John D'Arms, President
American Council on Education
Stanley O. Ikenberry, President
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National Academy
of Sciences
Bruce Alberts, President
Social Science Research Council
Kenneth Prewitt, President
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CIES Board Members
(as of April 1, 1998) |
David Arnold (Ex
Officio)
Acting President
Institute of International Education
Tilden LeMelle (Chairman)
President Emeritus
University of the District of Columbia
Roger Anderson
Professor and Chair
Department of Russian and Eastern Studies
University of Kentucky
Mary Brown Bullock
President
Agnes Scott College
Valerie Bunce
Professor
Department of Government
Cornell University
Bernard Harleston
Director
Doctoral Program in Higher Education Administration
Graduate College of Education
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Frederick Horne
Dean
College of Science
Oregon State University
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William E. Kirwan
President
University of Maryland, College Park
David Ludden
Associate Professor
South Asia National Resource Center
University of Pennsylvania
Charles Ping
President Emeritus
Ohio University
Thomas M. Ricks
Director
Office of International Studies
Villanova University
Thomas Skidmore
Director
Center for Latin American Studies
Brown University
Eleanor Westney
Associate Professor
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ben C. Yen
Newmark Civil Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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