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Ten recent graduates from the College of the Holy Cross have been awarded Fulbright grants to work and teach abroad. This marks a record high number of Fulbrights awarded in a single year for the College. Since 2002, Holy Cross has received a total of 44 Fulbrights, and has consistently been among the nation’s top producers of Fulbright students at the undergraduate level.
The highly competitive grants are awarded on the basis of academic merit and professional promise. “The Fulbright is a good fit for Holy Cross,” said Anthony Cashman, director of Distinguished Fellowships and Graduate Studies at the College. “We have first-rate students, excellent language instruction, full-year immersion study-abroad experiences, and a mission-based global perspective that we inherited from the earliest Jesuits.”
Each year approximately 1,000 college students are awarded grants through the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s flagship program in international educational exchange. Fulbright grants are made to U.S. citizens and nationals of other countries for a variety of educational activities, primarily university lecturing, advanced research, graduate study and teaching in elementary and secondary schools. Since the program’s inception in 1946, more than 250,000 participants have had the opportunity to observe each other’s political, economic and cultural institutions.
This year’s recipients are: