Celebrating the Legacy of Senator Fulbright

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Letter to the editor: Page 1 V í N CU L OS UNIVE R SI D A D D E LA S FUER Z A S A R M A D A S ES P E PRINT: ISSN 2477-8877 ONLINE: ISSN 2631-2751 7 James William Fulbright was born in Summer, Missouri, on April 9th, 1905. 41 years later, he founded one of the most successful and fruitful exchange initiatives in academia: the Fulbright program. In 2017, we celebrated 60 years of the Fulbright Commission in Ecuador, with this issue of Vínculos as one of the ways to highlight this accomplishment. Between 1946 and today lies a legacy that can be summarized as one of the world’s foremost educational exchange programs: a program of 73 years, 155 countries, and close to 300,000 Fulbright alumni. When Senator Fulbright proposed a program that would bring “a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs,” the international community was just looking back on …

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2018

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