{"id":160788,"date":"2024-02-13T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=160788"},"modified":"2025-06-26T12:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:10:18","slug":"bates-named-a-fulbright-student-top-producer-for-13th-straight-year-in-2023-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/13\/bates-named-a-fulbright-student-top-producer-for-13th-straight-year-in-2023-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates named a Fulbright Student ‘Top Producer’ for 13th straight year in 2023-24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the 13th straight year, Bates College was named a Top Producer of Fulbright Student awards, it was announced today by the U.S. Department of State and published in The Chronicle of Higher Education.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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For the 13th straight year, Bates is a Top Producer of Fulbright Student awards.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This year\u2019s Top Producer award is based on seven Fulbright offers<\/a> made to graduating Bates seniors and alumni last spring, including four English teaching awards and three research\/study awards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bates joins just 21 other undergraduate liberal arts colleges that can claim being a Fulbright Student Top Producer for 13 straight years. Twice in the past six years, Bates has been the No. 1 producer of Fulbright Student awards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bates President Garry W. Jenkins called the long tradition at Bates of embracing the Fulbright mission \u2014 to promote understanding and support friendly and peaceful relations between the U.S. and people of other nations \u2014  a joyful achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe college\u2019s Fulbright success is another proof point that Bates is uniquely positioned to develop the innovative, caring, bold leaders of tomorrow,\u201d Jenkins said. \u201cCongratulations to all of this year\u2019s Fulbright award recipients and their faculty mentors who supported them. The Bates tradition of Fulbright success makes sense, given our rich history of academic excellence and global engagement. We are so pleased and proud to be, once again, named a Fulbright Top Producing institution, and we look forward to developing our relationship further.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The college\u2019s Fulbright success is another proof point that Bates is uniquely positioned to develop the innovative, caring, bold leaders of tomorrow,\u201d said President Garry W. Jenkins, seen talking with Alice Wruck \u201924 of Columbus, Ohio, in Perry Atrium, on Dec. 8, 2023, about her research poster in economics. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Robert Strong, Bates director of national fellowships and a lecturer in English, said that the college\u2019s Fulbright success flows from a shared global perspective. Both Bates and Fulbright seek to advance understanding, collaboration, academic excellence, and cross-cultural engagement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe really do well at Fulbright because our campus ethos matches perfectly with the Fulbright ethos,\u201d he said. \u201cAny Bates student who wants to apply for a Fulbright is going to be a good applicant, period.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bates\u2019 long tradition of robust study abroad participation continues to generate interest in Fulbright opportunities, Strong added. Each year about 60 percent of Bates\u2019 junior class studies off-campus for a semester or the year. \u201cThe relationship between study abroad and Fulbright is huge. When students go abroad, they see the whole world. And they return and think, \u2018Yeah, there’s that Fulbright thing!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAny Bates student who wants to apply for a Fulbright is going to be a good applicant, period.\u201d<\/p>\nRobert Strong<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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