Campus Representatives Case Studies: How Institutions Support and Promote the Fulbright Scholar Program

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Campus Representatives Case StudiesHow
Institutions Support and Promote the Fulbright
Scholar Program
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Role of Campus Representatives Critical Allies

• Promote Fulbright Scholar Programs
• Educate faculty administrators about programs
• Encourage support applicants
• Recognize Fulbright grantees
• Support the development of Fulbright friendly
  policies at your institution

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Promoting the Fulbright Scholar Program

• Case Study Cleveland State University
• Makes Fulbright a priority when meeting with
  colleagues, formally or informally
• Uses Awards Catalogue to match faculty to awards
• Critically reviews project statements to insure
  they are competitive
• Invites us annually to conduct a workshop at the
  start of the competition

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BEST PRACTICES Promoting Fulbright

• Speak at faculty meetings
• Introduce oneself as a campus representative
• Bring Fulbright to the attention of
  administrators (meetings as an agenda item)
• Print Fulbright Campus Representative on your
  business card
• Link CIES to your Web site via a Web bug
• Use International Education Week to promote
  Fulbright

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• Distribute program information and announcements
• February 1 New Award Competition Opens
• October 1 Scholar Lists
• Order additional materials
• Establish a binder or a location for all
  Fulbright related publications/announcements
• Submit press releases announcing the program in
  faculty newsletters

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• Hold a Campus Workshop
• Case Study Atlanta based institutions rotate
  funding to allow for CIES staff to travel to
  their region annually
• Invite previous grantees to speak
• Use PowerPoint presentation found at
  www.cies.org/campus_reps
• Ask CIES to send you materials

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Educate Faculty Administrators About Programs

• Case Study Arizona State University Tempe
• Holds informational sessions using former
  grantees are resources
• Events are held in conjunction with spring and
  fall announcements
• Funded by Arizona Higher Education System with a
  possibility to rotate locations of events to
  different campuses

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• Case Study Texas State University San Marcos
• Invites a locally affiliated Fulbright Visiting
  Scholar to speak on Campus (OLF)
• Requests materials for Fulbright information
  tables throughout the year
• Publicizes Fulbright events and activities in
  campus wide newsletters press releases

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BEST PRACTICES Educate Faculty Administrators
About Programs

• Increase the number of campus representatives at
  your institution
• Have a discussion about where Fulbright Programs
  should be on a campus
• Invite CIES to conduct an administrator workshop
  to facilitate conversation
• Work with returned Scholars to publish articles
  about their experience and the impact it has had
  on the institution wide

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Encourage Support Applicants

• Case Study Penn State Universitys Office of
  International Programs
• Critically reviews all applications using
  Fulbright Alumni panels for certain world
  regions/academic disciplines
• Maintains a Fulbright website
• Holds yearly Fulbright workshops invites the
  local chapter of the Fulbright Association
• Encourages combining Fulbright with sabbatical

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Recognize Fulbright Grantees

• Host a reception, coffee hour, luncheon
• Case Study Northern Illinois Universitys
  International Recognition Reception
• For all faculty who have received international
  grants
• Case Study Whitworth College
• Introduces Visiting Scholars in a reception open
  to the public to engage the local community in
  campus life
• Includes U.S. Scholars in annual Presidents
  Reception

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BEST PRACTICES Recognizing Grantees

• Publish names of grant winners in campus
  newsletters newspapers
• Case Study University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  publishes interviews with Fulbright Scholars in
  campus publications
• Case Study Emory University maintains an Emory
  in the World web site
• Send letters of congratulations to grantees
  signed by the President, Vice President or Dean
• Case Study North Carolina State University -
  Raleigh develops a letter and submits it for
  signature by senior administrators

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Support the Development of Fulbright Friendly
Policies at your Institution

• Commitment to faculty development and
  International programs
• Make faculty exchange part of the campus
  strategic plan
• Permit sabbaticals for Fulbright assignments
• Top-off Fulbright grants
• Continue to provide important health other
  benefits to faculty receiving Fulbright grants
• Acknowledge overseas experience with merit salary
  review and tenure decisions

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How Does Fulbright Benefit Your Institution?

• Provides students with access to international
  expertise
• Introduces faculty to new teaching methods
• Allows faculty to update syllabi design new
  innovative courses
• Gives institutions the opportunity to meet the
  multicultural needs of students
• Results in development of exchange programs for
  institutions

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What Do Your Faculty Need?

• Release Time
• Tenure/Promotion
• Salary
• Benefits
• Recognition

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Release Time

• Fulbright Scholar grants range from 2 to 12
  months
• How does your campus handle release time set
  schedule or as needed?
• Can junior faculty get release time?
• Can adjunct faculty go on a Fulbright and be
  offered work on their return?
• Case Study Marquette University allows faculty
  to switch the sabbatical year around to
  coordinate with a Fulbright

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Tenure/Promotion

• Does international experience count toward
  tenure, promotion or merit awards?
• Are the faculty development benefits of lecturing
  awards recognized equally with those of research
  awards?
• Can junior faculty accept a Fulbright without
  jeopardizing tenure? Some campuses stop the
  tenure clock for the duration of the Fulbright
  Scholar grant.
• Case Study Texas AM University highly values
  international teaching, research and service in
  tenure decisions
• Offers salary stipends to top off awards
• Gives funding to relevant department to hire
  replacement faculty

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Salary

• Most Fulbright Scholar grants to not equal
  faculty salaries
• Fulbright Scholar grants cover
• Stipend
• Maintenance
• Travel/Relocation
• Other benefits may vary
• Case Study Appalachian State University
  maintains benefit packages at the universitys
  expense
• Gives Fulbright funding to relevant department to
  hire replacement faculty

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Benefits

• Fulbright Scholars need uninterrupted coverage
  with their regular health insurance
• Grants offer only supplementary coverage which
  includes medical evacuation, but not preexisting
  conditions or family members
• Are other benefits continued, for example,
  retirement?

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Fulbright Can SAVE Your Institution Money

• It can be cheaper to hire an adjunct and top off
  the Fulbright Scholars grant than to pay full
  salary to your top faculty
• Scientific grants may not include funds for
  foreign travel Fulbright Scholar grants
  (Visiting US) can be part of larger projects
• Fulbright Scholars can generate revenue by
  attracting new students and grants

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Fulbright Scholars Expand Professional Activities

• 83 Publish their results
• 94 Seek additional grants and funding
• 72 Continue their collaborations with host
  country
• 85 Encourage their students and colleagues to
  participate in an exchange
• 91 Share their knowledge of the host country
  with the broad community
• Source ORC Macro Comprehensive Evaluation for
  Fulbright Program 2005

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Fulbright Scholars Results 95 Expand their
Professional Activities

• 75 have continued to collaborate with colleagues
  from their host country or host institution
• 73 have incorporated aspects of the Fulbright
  experience into courses and teaching methods
• Nearly 70 have initiated educational exchanges
  since completing the grant
• Source SRI International Outcome Assessment 2002

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Faculty Impact on Study Abroad Participation

• NSSE 2007 annual report found that an increase of
  one category in the average importance faculty
  place on study abroad corresponds to about a 20
  increase in student participation in study
  abroad.
• Institute of International Education surveys of
  applicants to Fulbright Student programs find
  that roughly 40 identify faculty as their source
  of information about Fulbright

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Recognition and Multiplier Effect

• Fulbright Scholars return energized with new
  ideas for international collaboration,
  invigorating curricula, involving students
• Case Study College of Central Florida displayed
  Scholar photographs hosted a workshop with area
  alumni group entitled The Fulbright Experience
  Visual Conversations From Afar
• Dont lose that energy to disinterest use it to
  benefit your campus!
• How does your institution recognize returning
  Fulbright Scholars?
• Is there support for new courses or collaborative
  projects?

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CIES A Resource for YOU

• Conference Workshop Schedule
• Meet CIES Staff
• Publicize webinars and discipline/area specific
  conferences to faculty and staff
• Distribute monthly messages from CIES
• Fulbright Scholar News

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Tell Us What Youre Doing!

• Send us copies of publicity
• Tell us if you hold workshops
• Give us examples of your best practices