Fulbright and the Growth of a Professional Teachers’ Organization – Sally La Luzerne-Oi – Ukraine 1995 & 2007
My Fulbright experience in Ukraine during the 1995-1996 academic year provided many special moments and memories, but the most enduring one was helping to organize a professional organization for teachers of English. One of my tasks while teaching English classes for English majors at Vinnytsia Pedagogical Institute (now a university) was to assist faculty there […]
Holodomor: the little known famine-genocide – Oleh Wolowyna – Ukraine 2008 and 2014
Discovering new facts about the 1932-34 Famine in Soviet Ukraine Sometimes a decision at a specific point in time triggers a significant change in one’s life course. I started my first Fulbright grant in September 2008 at the Institute of Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. I soon […]
Discovering New Facts about the 1932-34 Famine in Soviet Ukraine – Oleh Wolowyna – Ukraine 2008 and 2014
Sometimes a decision at a specific point in time triggers a significant change in one’s life course. I started my first Fulbright grant in September 2008 at the Institute of Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. I soon realized that the Institute staff was not very interested in my […]
Reminiscences of the First Months of a Fulbright Grant – Sofika Zielyk – Ukraine 2014
“Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations.” I have heard this quote by Sen. William Fulbright many times in my life but only after I had spent the first part of my Fulbright grant in Ukraine did I fully understand the […]
Kirovohrad: A City of Contrasts and Harsh Realities in Central Ukraine – George Oleh Kolodiy – Ukraine 1998
I came to Ukraine as a Fulbright scholar to teach, so my first interest was to find out about Ukraine’s educational system. I taught at Kirovohrad’s Volodymyr Vynnychenko National Pedagogical University. The teaching resources at the university are extremely poor. There are probably two or three overhead projectors at the university and that was essentially […]
Sharing America’s Election Drama with Ukraine – Adrian Karmazyn – Ukraine 2016
During the closing weeks of the 2016 US election season, I had the unique opportunity to try and explain the key moments of the campaign to an audience of Ukrainian university journalism students. During mid October, I started a one-month Fulbright Specialist lecture tour which took me to three cities in Ukraine — Kyiv, Kharkiv, […]
Visiting a Champagneski Factory in Ukraine – William W Wilen – Ukraine 2003
My Fulbright Scholar teaching experience in Ukraine was one of the most culturally informative and memorable experiences in my traveling academic life as a teacher education professor at Kent State University. I was the first Fulbrighter to serve as a senior lecturer at the Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages located in the eastern […]
Experiences as a Fulbright – Roy Gonas – Ukraine 2010
As a Fulbright Specialist one is expected to impart knowledge and usually in the classroom. But it is one part of the responsibility. For me being a Fulbright became a mission of diplomacy, education, relationships and other experiences-many unexpected. This writing is an attempt to share some of those experiences and how becoming a Fulbright […]