I arrived in Taipei in early September 2025 as a Fulbright Senior Scholar, returning to Taiwan for the first time since a brief visit in 2010 as part of an academic delegation. Well before 2010, I lived in Taipei as a graduate student in the early 1990s,
When I first received the notification that I had been awarded the Fulbright Senior Scholar award, my initial reaction was excitement and joy. There was the undeniable thrill of professional validation, certainly,
Reflecting on my Fulbright experience as a senior teaching scholar in Taiwan I feel a deep sense of gratitude. I am grateful for the opportunity to advance and contribute meaningfully to my professional mission.
During my Fulbright FLTA year in Utah, one experience captured the essence of exchange in a deeply personal way. I noticed that Taiwanese students at Utah were often disconnected from one another,
In 2024, I received an invitation from a colleague to attend Taiwan Night at the NAFSA conference in New Orleans. Taiwan was a place I knew very little about, but I became impressed by the exchanges and scholarships
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
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
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
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,
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
