International Education Administrator (IEA)

Fulbright Taiwan Reflection – Dr. Art R. Malloy
Participating in the 2026 Fulbright Taiwan Seminar was one of the most meaningful professional development experiences of my career. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have shared this experience

The forever impacts of time spent in Formosa
I was an unlikely applicant for the IEA award. I am not an international education specialist and, in fact, I am not very well traveled. Selection as an applicant must have resulted from a convincing argument of the strategic fit to

Curiosity, Connection, and Kuai Kuai: Reflections from Taiwan
A few days after returning from my time in Taiwan where I participated in the Fulbright International Education Administrators (IEA) Seminar, I walked down the hall to visit our Application and

An Imagined Memory: Finding My Cultural and Professional Tie to Taiwan
Taiwan has remained in the backdrop of my reading landscape since I was ten years old. I grew up in China reading essays, poetry, plays, choreography and novels by Yu Kwang-chung, Lin Chin-hsuan, Chu T’ien-wen,

Engineering Education in a Semiconductor World
Every smartphone, laptop, and artificial intelligence system depends on tiny semiconductor chips – many of which are manufactured in Taiwan. Yet during my two weeks in Taiwan as part of the

From Rural Illinois to Taiwan: A Fulbright IEA Reflection from a First-Generation Student’s Lens
I wanted to input my perspective of my Fulbright IEA experience as a first-generation student alum. A first-generation student refers to a student where neither of their parents have a bachelor’s degree.