The Worldwide Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program brings approximately 800 scholars from other countries to lecture and/or engage in post-doctoral research at U.S. colleges and universities for either a semester or full academic year.  Institutions that do not typically have opportunity to host foreign scholars are particularly encouraged to apply.

The Visiting Scholar Occasional Lecture Program provides opportunities for U.S. colleges and universities to take advantage of guest lectures by foreign Fulbright scholars who are already here on grants.  Your institution can obtain a listing of these scholars from CIES and invite them to come to your campus. CIES will pay for the guest scholar’s transportation costs to your campus.

The Fulbright Administrator and Teacher Exchange Program involves approximately 30 countries and offers one-to-one exchanges between faculty and administrators of primary, secondary, community college and four-year institutions of higher education30 countries and offers one-to-one exchanges between faculty and administrators of primary, secondary, community college and four-year institutions of higher education. 

The Fulbright Senior Specialists Program is a new program that provides short-term, two to six-week, grants to U.S. faculty and professionals.  It matches the expertise of U.S. specialists with the needs of foreign institutions for short-term projects.

The Fulbright Student Program awards fellowships to both U.S. and foreign graduate students for study and research in other countries.

Recently Approved Social Work Fulbrights

-Enhancing Social Work Services to Individuals and Families and Strengthening the Professional Affiliation of Clinical Social Workers in Indonesia.  Widuri School of Social Work, Jakarta, Indonesia.

-Development of Non-Governmental Organizations in the Czech Republic.  Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

-Comparative Health Policy.  Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

-Drug Abuse and Prevention: Education, Certification, Program and Policy Development.  Kenthea and the Turkish Cypriot Community, Nicosia, Cyprus.

-Cultural Competence and Clinical Practice: Adapting Developmental Models for Work Across Cultures.  Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

-Substance Abuse Counseling.  St. Petersburg University of the Pedagogical Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia.

-Social Group Work.  Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

-Community-Based Research and Practice in Albania.  University of Tirana, Albania.

-Quality of Life and Social Support Among Older People.  Lingan University, Hong Kong, China.

-Consultation and In-service Education to Advance Participatory Action Research and Social Work Practice: A Holistic, Ecosystems Model.  National Autonomous University of Honduras, Postgraduate Latin American Social Work Program, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

-Child Welfare Reform in Romania: The Romanian and U.S. Experience.  University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.

-Self-Governance and Citizen Action to Produce Collective Public Goods in the Neighborhoods of Kathmandu.  Kathmandu University, Kathmandu,  Nepal.

-Strengthening the Undergraduate Social Work Curriculum at the State University of Haiti.  Port-au-Prince, Haiti.