國外校園生活:FLTA的大學生涯
2025年的8月底,我降落在西雅圖塔科瑪,開始了我人生許多的第一次。普及灣大學(University of Puget Sound)在西雅圖的南方,我在風光明媚的秋天抵達跟黑龍江一樣高緯度的西雅圖。 開學以前,把學校的一切都安頓下來後,國外校園生活才正式登場。
2025年的8月底,我降落在西雅圖塔科瑪,開始了我人生許多的第一次。普及灣大學(University of Puget Sound)在西雅圖的南方,我在風光明媚的秋天抵達跟黑龍江一樣高緯度的西雅圖。 開學以前,把學校的一切都安頓下來後,國外校園生活才正式登場。
When we teach, we are also learning. This axiom is almost a cliché in higher education, yet it becomes newly real when one is removed from familiar routines and asked to teach in a different linguistic,
My experiences with the Fulbright Program have always been deeply positive, and after each of the three grants I have received, I am left with a profound sense of gratitude. This was my third Fulbright grant, but my first participation in an IEA program.
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