CSI Ranks Second on Fulbright Scholars Top-Producing List for Master’s Institutions

The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs recently announced the U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2016-2017 Fulbright U.S. Scholars. The College of Staten Island (CSI) is a top-producing Fulbright Scholar institution, receiving the second most Fulbright awards in a ranking of Master’s Institutions.

With fifteen Fulbright awards since 2000, CSI received three awards just this past academic year. Ava Chin, PhD, and Ying Zhu, PhD, received 2016-2017 Fulbright Awards, and CSI administrator Monika Wojciechowski was also selected for the 2016 Fulbright International Education Administrator (IEA) Program in Japan.

Dr. Chin is currently lecturing on U.S. journalism, focusing on food and popular culture in China, and Dr. Zhu, who has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, is conducting research in China, primarily based in the Shanghai Film Academy.

The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program. Top-producing institutions are highlighted annually in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Since its inception in 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided more than 370,000 participants—chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential — with the opportunity to exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns. More than 1,100 U.S. college and university faculty and administrators, professionals, artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, and independent scholars are awarded Fulbright grants to teach and/or conduct research annually. The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program operates in more than 125 countries throughout the world. Lists of Fulbright Scholar recipients are available on their Web site.

 

History of Fulbright Scholars

2016-2017

Ava Chin, PhD

Monika Wojciechowski

Ying Zhu, PhD

 

2015-2016

Irina Sekerina, PhD

 

2010-2011

Sarah Berger, PhD

Prosper Bernard

 

2009-2010

Barbara Clark

 

2007-2008

Jane Marcus-Delgado, PhD

 

2006-2007

Susan Smith-Peter, PhD

Cindy Wong, PhD

 

2004-2005

Alan Zimmerman, DPS

 

2003-2004

Nan Sussman, PhD

 

2001-2002

Daniel Fuchs

Peter Simpson, PhD

 

2000-2001

Stefano Harney