‘Directing the Power of Human Knowledge’

A Case for Support

"Education is the best means, probably the only means,

by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity

about each other’s behavior and intentions …

Educational exchange can turn nations into people,

contributing as no other form of communication can

to the harmonizing of international relations."

Senator J. William Fulbright

Left: Sophie Kim, Fulbright Student, 2008-2009, from Rice University to the University of Toronto

Right: Michelle Tressler, Fulbright Student, 2008-2009, from William and Mary to University of Toronto

Cover: Reg Singletary, Killam Fellow, 2009-2010 from Appalachian State University to Concordia University

Introduction

We live in a world where information is abundant, but where knowledge and understanding are rare. It is a world where we are culturally rich, but not always attuned to the implications of our cultural diversity. Where our nations’ talent must be nurtured and contribute to both domestic priorities and policy, and to the global challenges in which we play an important role.

As Americans and Canadians, we enjoy a free society and share important values. Our relationship as allies and neighbours is enriched by our mutual commitment to invest in our relationship, and to work together to help shape a more rational and civilized world.

Fulbright Canada (The Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States of America) plays a critical role in that partnership. As a world-leading model for successful educational exchange, we focus our attention on a clear purpose ... to nurture the power of human knowledge that lies within our nations’ most promising scholars, and to help direct that knowledge to encourage and support leaders who can contribute directly to solving the most pressing issues and questions of our time.

Fulbright Canada was established in 1990 as an integral part of the worldwide Fulbright Program. Led by the commitment and the vision of the two governments, and supported by investments made by universities and by key private sector partners, Fulbright Canada annually offers some $2 million dollars in scholarships, fellowships, and programs that support the most promising academic minds in our two countries.

In this, our 20th year, Fulbright Canada is at a transformative moment. The leadership of our Board of Directors has established an ambitious new plan for growth. Fulbright Canada aims to reach out to the business community, and to individuals, to complement the ongoing commitment of governments, to attract $40 million in private sector investment in order to double the number of awards and grow the size and scope of the programs that we offer.

In the following pages we share a bit of our history and some of our successes, our vision for growth and expanded impact, and our commitment to that vision.

Above: Calina Elwand, Killam Fellow, 2008-2009

from the University of Ottawa to American University

Below: Vijay Narasimham

Fulbright International Science and Tech Award winner, 2008-2009

from the University of Ottawa to Stanford University

“My experience living in the United States, researching at a national research lab, and contributing to leading analysis in the renewable energy sector has been absolutely and unequivocally one of the greatest experiences of my life. I have learned a tremendous amount, have deepened my understanding of my research field, and made a number of valuable contacts that will be extremely useful, both at the lab and around the world.”

Toby Couture Fulbright Student 2008-2009 from l’université de Moncton to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Colorado)

The Fulbright Program

Fulbright is a scholarship program created to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries through the medium of educational and cultural exchange.

The program was conceived by Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, a Rhodes Scholar and one of the great statesmen of the 20th Century. It was carried forward by the Fulbright Act of 1946, and expanded in the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (the Fulbright–Hays Act). Today, the Fulbright Program has become the largest and most prestigious academic exchange program in the world. Operating in more than 150 countries the Fulbright Program is one of the world’s most competitive scholarship programs, and has produced more than 300,000 extraordinary alumni. Fulbright invests its global budget of more than $1 billion in direct support of the best and brightest students, scholars, researchers, and teachers in the world.

The Fulbright Program is widely considered to be the gold standard of academic exchanges and is frequently used as a measure of academic excellence, intellectual integrity, and social diversity.

“It is the task of education, more than any other instrument of foreign policy, to help close the dangerous gap between the economic and technological interdependence of the people of the world and their psychological, political and spiritual alienation.” J. William Fulbright Prospects for the West, 1963

Fulbright Canada

Since 1990, through its increasingly diverse range of scholarships, fellowships, and related programs, Fulbright Canada has supported more than one thousand outstanding individuals, including some of our most promising graduate students and most celebrated researchers. Fulbright Canada is supported by both Governments, by the university community, and by a number of private sector partners.

www.fulbrightcanada.com

The Foundation for

Educational Exchange

between Canada and the

United States of America

is a registered charitable

organization created in

1990 through an

executive agreement

between the Government

of Canada and the

Government of the United

States. The Foundation,

which operates under the

name “Fulbright

Canada”, is charged with

‘enhancing mutual

understanding’ through

the vehicle of academic

exchanges for students

and scholars in Canada

and the United States.

Photo:

Jamie Huckabay

Fulbright Student, from Lethbridge

University to Johns Hopkins

University, 2008-2009

Academic Programs

Fulbright Canada administers a number of high-level, cross-border academic exchange programs. It is the only organization dedicated exclusively to academic exchanges between our two countries. As part of each scholarship, the Foundation provides health insurance, visa support, research support, mobility money, and professional development opportunities. In addition, recipients of Fulbright awards benefit from being part of a worldwide alumni network and from the reputational value of a program which is synonymous with academic excellence. Fulbright Canada offers awards to students, to scholars, and to teachers.

Fulbright Canada Student Awards

Traditional Fulbright Student Awards allow graduate students, junior professionals and promising young researchers to enrol in graduate studies, conduct field work, or pursue an independent research project. The Fulbright graduate student award is at the core of the Fulbright Program and reflects our commitment to investing in our common future and to ‘directing the power of human knowledge’. The Fulbright Canada Eco-Leadership Program provides additional funding to current Fulbright Canada grantees and recent alumni, allowing them to initiate environmental action programs and make a significant and positive impact in their home and host communities. The Fulbright International Science and Technology Awards are among the most prestigious international scholarships in science and technology. The award carries a value, on average, of US$180,000 over three years. This award is a worldwide program intended to support candidates who demonstrate unique aptitude and innovation in scientific fields in their studies at top tier schools in the United States. The Fulbright Canada Science, Technology Engineering, and Math (STEM) Program is a new initiative, designed to complement the Fulbright International Science and Technology awards, allowing outstanding American students to enrol in Ph.D. programs in science, technology, engineering, or math at one of Canada’s top research institutions.

“The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program has allowed me to pursue my dream and form important relationships with leading scientists in an increasingly globalized field.” Ahmed Ismail, Fulbright Student, 2008-2009

from Carleton University to Stanford University

“My tenure as a Fulbright scholar at Vanderbilt University was a fundamentally transformative experience on both a personal and professional level.” Christine Rivas, Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair at Vanderbilt University, 2009-2010

Clockwise from top left: Rozanna Fang (from University of Washington, to université de Montréal), Adam Tanga (from American University to Mount Allison University), Dennis Fox (from University of Illinois, to York University), Victoria Shaw(from Hanover College, to McGill University), Reva Robinson (from University of Washington, to Queen’s University), Michael Eldridge (from Humboldt State University, to McMaster University), Kerri Shadid (University of Oklahoma, to McGill University), Susan Berube (independent Fulbright Student at Laval University), Gregory Zimmerman (from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, to the University of Guelph)

Clockwise from top left: Ian McCarthy (New Century Scholar from Simon Fraser University), Monica Cojacaru (from the University of Guelph, to UCSB), Laura Adams (from Queen’s University, to Syracuse University), Sara Parke (from UBC, to Stanford University), Max Liu (from the UBC, to the University of California, Berkeley), Susan Humphrey (from Mount Allison University, to Smith College), Daniel Banoub (from Memorial Univeristy, to SUNY Plattsburgh), Andrée-Anne Cormier (from université de Montréal, to Columbia University), Tyson Dyck (from Torys LLP, to Stanford University Law School)

Fulbright Canada Undergraduate Student Awards

The Killam Fellowships Program provides support for exceptional undergraduate students from accredited colleges and universities in Canada and the United States to participate in a program of residential exchange. Fellowship recipients spend either one semester or a full academic year as an exchange student in the host country.

The program is open to all qualified undergraduate students in both countries. Students can participate in either the direct exchange program, which is restricted to the partner colleges and universities, or the open competition.

Photo: Erin Aylward (& friends), Killam Fellow, 2009-2010 from Memorial University to University of Washington

Fulbright Canada Scholar Awards

The Fulbright Scholar Awards enable established scholars, emerging scholars, post-doctoral researchers, and experienced professionals to undertake collaborative research projects, engage with new colleagues, and connect with new communities and new students. The Fulbright Visiting Research Chairs are targeted opportunities which allow prominent and promising scholars to conduct research, offer guest lectures, and engage with local communities at select American and Canadian universities and colleges. The Fulbright New Century Scholars Program brings together approximately thirty outstanding scholars and professionals from around the world to collaborate on a common research topic. The theme is 2010 is the University as Innovation Driver.

The Fulbright Specialist Program offers short-term Fulbright grants to leading U.S. scholars and senior professionals to collaborate with their Canadian counterparts on curriculum and faculty development, institutional planning, and a variety of other activities.

The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program brings visiting scholars and professionals from abroad to lecture at U.S. colleges and universities. The focus is on undergraduate teaching, campus activities, and community involvement.

Fulbright Canada Outreach Programs ...from Research to Policy to Practice

Connecting extraordinary researchers with policy makers, with business leaders, with community action groups, and with governments, is critical to Fulbright Canada’s overall strategy of enhancing mutual understanding.

With this in mind, Fulbright Canada created the Network on North American Studies in Canada. This initiative, which involves a partnership with leading Canadian universities, government agencies, think tanks, and civil society, provides an important opportunity for world-class researchers to connect with key policy makers, practitioners, and other consumers of knowledge and information.

The network is committed to the promotion of interdisciplinary research; to supporting and identifying the next generation of scholars; to promoting the interests and the output of the research community in Canada and the United States; and, to playing a key role as interlocutor between the producers of specialized research and the potential consumers of that research.

The network addresses all aspects of scholarly research, along with the relevant policy implications, that matter to the citizens of North America. In particular, the Network has focused on key contemporary public policy issues; including, but not limited to, public health, environmental policy, trade policy, security, and border issues. The network underwrites conferences, colloquia, public lectures, and targeted research projects; it maintains a directory of experts on North American issues; and, it provides much-needed opportunities for extraordinary students to become full partners in their education and in the production of knowledge.

The next step is to transform the Network into a public research institute tasked with supporting leading edge research and connecting the research community to the policy community and the private sector.

Fulbright for the Future

Campaign

We live in an increasingly interdependent world,

characterized by dramatic changes in our economic, social,

and political systems, by changes in our natural

circumstances, and by rapid advances in science and

technology. Central to the Fulbright philosophy is the need to

manage that information and determine the costs and

consequences of our actions. Our abiding commitment at

Fulbright Canada is to seek out and support the most creative

thinkers in our societies and help them direct the power of

their knowledge for the collective good of society.

It is in this context that the Board of Directors of Fulbright Canada has initiated its ambitious new capital campaign, Fulbright for the Future. Led by Campaign Co-Chairs Kevin Kelly of Toronto and Ron Covais of Washington, the Campaign is committed to raising $40 million. This will allow us to double the number of outstanding Fulbright students and scholars that we can support; expand our innovative programming; grow our knowledge base; and, transform our network into a lasting forum for the dissemination of that knowledge.

The campaign slogan, ‘directing the power of knowledge’ derives from a comment made by Senator Fulbright in his book Prospects for the West. He argued at the time, nearly fifty years ago, that the preservation of a free society and the shaping of a rational and civilized world order ultimately depends on whether we succeed or fail in directing the enormous power of human knowledge. His words, which have purpose and meaning to generations of scholars and policy-makers are equally compelling in the world that we now inhabit.

“Like so many Canadians, the fact

that Canada and the United States

are strong partners, deeply

interconnected economies, and

steadfast friends has impacted on

both my personal life and my

professional life. I feel a very

strong bond with the people of the

United States, and a passion for

the need to make a greater

investment in this relationship

and to collectively and

aggressively invest in our best and

brightest citizens”.

Kevin J. Kelly

Toronto

Fulbright for the Future

Campaign Co-Chair

‘Directing the Power of

Human Knowledge’

The Fulbright for the Future Campaign is based on the notion

that we need to continue to invest in human capital and that

this investment is essential to a peaceful, stable, secure and

prosperous future. Fulbright is both a national and a bi-

national program, partnering with our leading colleges and

universities to support their efforts in the hope of achieving

our common purposes.

The campaign has three core goals:

1. To provide our best and brightest students with the unique and enriching experiences that will prepare them to address the most complex challenges of the day, and become the leaders of tomorrow. Enhanced private sector investment will allow us to create additional scholarships and fellowships, and increase the overall level of support to grantees.

2. To promote scholarship that expands the boundaries of human knowledge and pays attention to both the key issues of the day and to important emerging realities. Enhanced private sector investment will allow us to grow our research chairs program, creating new opportunities for leading edge collaborative research.

3. To provide an enduring forum for addressing key contemporary public policy issues on a wide range of issues relating to Canada, the United States, and the relationship between the two countries. New private sector investment will allow us to transform the Network on North American Studies into The Institute on Canada – U.S. Relations.

“Money should not be a barrier for the gifted and talented in pursuit of an education … especially those pursuing advanced studies. These are people who can, and will, make a difference in the world. Student awards are more than just a means to an education. They are an investment in talent; an opportunity to touch a life, a family, even an entire community. They provide opportunities to attract our best and brightest and support their quest for intellectual engagement.”

Ron Covais Washington Fulbright for the Future Campaign Co-Chair

Fundraising Priorities

1. Grow the number of annual Fulbright endowed graduate scholarships by 30

students, providing support to the very best students in all fields of academic

inquiry, along with an enhanced level of support to ensure that their research is

effectively disseminated and they are able to participate in important professional

enrichment activities. Goal: $15 million

2. Grow the number of annual Killam endowed undergraduate fellowships by 20

students, providing support to our most accomplished undergraduate students and

allowing us to grow the open competition. The open competition is particularly

important as it allow us to support the most diverse group of outstanding students.

Goal: $5 million

3. Introduce the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) program,

which would fully support several of the very best U.S. students in top Canadian

science programs each year. This initiative would mirror the Fulbright International

Science and Technology Program which is funded through the U.S. Department of

State. Goal $4 million

4. Introduce new initiatives and enhance existing programs to provide grantees

and alumni with enriched opportunities to engage with both their home and host

communities. One such program is our new and enormously successful Fulbright

Canada Eco-Leadership Award. New private sector investment will allow Fulbright

Canada to replicate this model in such areas as indigenous learning and social

justice … through a total of 20 new grants per year. Goal: $2 million

5. Establish ten new Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chairs in the humanities,

social sciences, and the sciences and expand a very successful model which has

promoted and encouraged important and highly collaborative research.

Goal: $6 million

6. Transform the NNASC into The Institute on Canada-U.S. Relations. This new

institute will allow Fulbright Canada to provide opportunities for Fulbright

grantees, and other leading edge researchers, to communicate more effectively with

the policy community, the business community, and civil society. Goal: $8 million

Why Fulbright?

Through exchange, scholarships, fellowships and related programs, Fulbright Canada enhances mutual understanding between the people of Canada and the people of the United States. Our initiatives enable promising students and scholars to engage in collaborative research, connect with the best minds in their fields, acquire the best possible training, and get involved in their new communities.

The vision of the Fulbright for the Future Campaign is clear: to double the number of Fulbrighters contributing to the knowledge economy and civil society, and to ensure that they connect directly with both policy makers and practitioners. Now, more than ever, we must identify and empower our nations’ most talented minds, support their pursuit of academic excellence and help position them to contribute to our collective well being. We invite you to partner with us in realizing that vision.

It is no longer enough to meet the challenges of today, we need to prepare for the challenges of tomorrow.

Photo: Michael Hawes, Fulbright

Canada Visiting Research Chair,

University of California at Berkeley,

1999-2000

“Our goal at Fulbright

Canada is to contribute to

the development of

intellectual capital in

Canada and the United

States of America and, at the

same time, to support and

encourage a generation of

culturally aware, socially

experienced, and ethically

responsible citizens. As a

Fulbright alumnus myself, I

am especially proud of the

accomplishments of our

grantees and our alumni.”

Michael Hawes

Ottawa

CEO, Fulbright Canada

Sophie Kim and friends

Fulbright Canada

Board of Directors

Canadian Directors

Ambassador Gary Doer

Canadian Ambassador to the United States,

Winnipeg

Dr. Carl Amrhein

Provost, University of Alberta, Edmonton

Mme. Hélène Desmarais

Chairman and CEO, CEIM, Montréal

Dr. Peter George

President, McMaster University, Hamilton

Mr. Kevin J. Kelly (Past Chair)

Campaign Co-Chair, Toronto

Mr. Daniel McCarthy (Treasurer)

Vice-Chair, CIBC World Markets, Toronto

Mr. Ashif Ratanshi

Senior VP, Financial Services, RBC, Toronto

Mr. Denis Stevens

Director General, Intergovernmental Affairs

& Public Outreach, Department of Foreign

Affairs and International Trade, Ottawa

Mr. Frank Sobey

Chairman, Crombie REIT, Stellarton

Dr. Luc Vinet

Recteur, Université de Montréal, Montréal

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Dr. Michael K. Hawes

Chief Executive Officer

Fulbright Canada

American Directors

Ambassador David C. Jacobson

Ambassador of the United States to Canada,

Chicago

Mr. Ron T. Covais (Campaign Co-Chair)

President Americas, Lockheed Martin, Washington

Ms. Linda Cheatham

Minister Counsellor for Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy

in Canada, Ottawa

Mr. John P. Curtin

Chairman, Goldman Sachs Canada, New York

Dr. John Ettling

President, SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh

Ambassador Gordon Giffin

Partner, McKenna, Long & Aldridge,

Atlanta/Washington

Mr. Roscoe C. Howard (Board Chair)

Partner, Andrews Kurth LLP, Washington

Ms. Penelope Kyle

President, Radford University, Radford Virginia

Ms. Gloria Cordes Larson

President, Bentley University, Boston

Mr. Michael Parham

Vice President, Realnetworks, Seattle

Photo: Roscoe Howard, Board Chair