Author: Rachel Treisman

The State Department, which administers the Fulbright Program. Eleven members of the 12-person Fulbright board have resigned over alleged Trump administration interference. Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images All but one member of the 12-person board that oversees the prestigious Fulbright Program has resigned, citing political interference by the Trump administration. Congress created the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board through the 1961 Fulbright–Hays Act of 1961 to supervise the U.S. government’s flagship program of international educational and cultural exchange. The program awards some 8,000 merit-based grants each year, enabling Fulbright scholars across fields to study, teach and…