International Education and the Hope For A Better World

• Main Author: Fulbright, J. William
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Arkansas Libraries 1967
• Subjects: International Relations; Education; International Cooperation; Fulbright Exchange Program; Iceland
• Online Access: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Fulbright/id/141

34 At the present time 22 students from Iceland are engaged in study, teaching and research in the United States and seven Americans are engaged in similar activities In Iceland. I am impressed and encouraged by the widening practice of cost-sharing because it is converting the educational exchange program from an American effort to a genuinely international program for learning and understanding. Another recent milestone has been the expansion of the program across ideological barriers. In 1964, after arduous negotiations, Yugoslavia became the 49th nation -- and the first communist nation -- to sign a Fulbright exchange agreement with the United States. It is my hope that this accord will be followed by exchange agreements with other communist countries and that these in turn will open channels of communication and good will that hitherto have not existed. In the long run, educational and cultural exchanges with communist countries may be expected to