“When I was an undergraduate student in a journalism program in Skopje [capital of the Republic of North Macedonia], there was a Fullbright scholar who came and taught reporting. She was a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, and she was just wonderful,” said Katerina Spasovska, associate professor of communications at WCU. “She kind of gave me a glimpse of what I could do.”
The Fullbright Program was established by a United States senator from Arkansas, J. William Fullbright, in 1946.
Fullbright, who would go on to chair the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for 15 years during the early stages of the Cold War, wanted to promote a two-way cultural and intellectual exchange in hopes that it would also improve relations between the United States and countries throughout the world.
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