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In protest at alleged political interference from President Donald Trump’s administration, all members of the U.S. State Department’s Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have voted to resign, the board said on Wednesday.
The board, which facilitates international educational exchanges, said in a statement released on the website Substack, that the current administration “usurped the authority of the Board and denied Fulbright awards to a substantial number of individuals who were selected for the 2025-2026 academic year.”
It added that the administration is also currently subjecting an additional 1,200 foreign Fulbright recipients to “an unauthorized review process and could reject more.”
“We believe these actions not only contradict the statute but are antithetical to the Fulbright mission and the values, including free speech and academic freedom, that Congress specified in the statute,” the board said.
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