{"287951":{"#nid":"287951","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Fulbright\u2019s value in international relations scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Obama administration\u2019s FY15 budget request to Congress\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.fulbright.org\/news\/163591\/President-Obama-budget-request-includes-30.5-million-cut-to-Fulbright.htm\u0022\u003Eincludes a 13.5 percent cut to the Fulbright Program\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;totaling $30.5 million. As in the case of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/themonkeycage.org\/category\/national-science-foundation\/\u0022\u003Econgressional attempts to cut funding for political science research via the National Science Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E, these cuts\u0026nbsp;could soon mean that many fewer scholars of international relations and comparative politics will be able to undertake research abroad, thus contributing to a decline in the quality and quantity of scholarship decision makers and the administration depend on to develop United States foreign policy. I (Laura) have asked several former Fulbright Scholars to share their experiences about how the Fulbright program contributes to political scientists\u2019 roles in building knowledge and scholarship about the world.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Obama administration\u2019s FY15 budget request to Congress\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.fulbright.org\/news\/163591\/President-Obama-budget-request-includes-30.5-million-cut-to-Fulbright.htm\u0022\u003Eincludes a 13.5 percent cut to the Fulbright Program\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;totaling $30.5 million. As in the case of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/themonkeycage.org\/category\/national-science-foundation\/\u0022\u003Econgressional attempts to cut funding for political science research via the National Science Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E, these cuts\u0026nbsp;could soon mean that many fewer scholars of international relations and comparative politics will be able to undertake research abroad, thus contributing to a decline in the quality and quantity of scholarship decision makers and the administration depend on to develop United States foreign policy. I (Laura) have asked several former Fulbright Scholars to share their experiences about how the Fulbright program contributes to political scientists\u2019 roles in building knowledge and scholarship about the world. Today,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/hayes_1\u0022\u003EJarrod Hayes\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of Georgia Tech guest posts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27751","created_gmt":"2014-04-02 15:15:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:02","author":"Vince Pedicino","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"cohort","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2014\/04\/02\/fulbrights-value-in-international-relations-scholarship\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"369","name":"Fulbright"},{"id":"10537","name":"Hayes"},{"id":"851","name":"INTA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}