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The executive director of the Fulbright Commission in Chile, Antonio Campaña, gave an informative speech at the UFRO Faculty of Law and Business about the existing international student mobility programs with the United States. |
The Fulbright Commission offers numerous programs and scholarships for research, educational, technical and professional exchange between Chile and the United States, for example with the well-known Harvard University or Georgetown University, among others. In order to disseminate these opportunities, the executive director of the Fulbright Commission in Chile, Antonio Campaña, gave an informative speech at the Faculty of Law and Business of the Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO) about the Fulbright Specialist Program and the U.S. Scholar Program. The informative speech addressed the two main areas of work of the Fulbright Commission, which are scholarships for Chilean citizens who want to go to the United States, mainly to obtain academic degrees, and the different programs the Chilean academics can apply to in order to bring visiting professors to Chile. “These programs are extremely important for our Chilean universities, because they allow us to build partnerships with North American academics and to promote mutual research and future publications, and even to think about future double degree programs. They are very important for making progress with the internationalization of the Chilean universities,” Campaña explained. It is worth mentioning that the visit of Linda Sheryl Greene, the dean of the Law School of the University of Michigan (USA), was also organized with the help of this program. “We consider the visit of the dean as very significant, since she is a constitutional expert who is working with the Universidad de La Frontera, especially with the Faculty of Law and Business, regarding issues that are a priority for Chile, such as the Constitutional Convention.” The dean of the Faculty of Law and Business, Dr. Paulina Sanhueza, emphasized the visit of the dean Greene and the opportunities the Fulbright Commission offers for the development of educational mobility and research. “Through her visit, we want to initiate a cooperation with the Fulbright Specialist Program in order to give our academic body the possibility to carry out an exchange with universities in the United States and to strengthen our research,” she commented. Click here for more information about the Fulbright programs and scholarships: https://www.fulbright.cl/
Written by: Karen Campos Reyes |
