Fulbright Scholars Program

Amid federal budget cuts, the Fulbright Scholarship Program - funded the the U.S. State Department - is facing cuts nearly 80 years after it was established.

This fall, the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board met in Fayetteville for the first time.

More than 330,000 Fulbright scholars have traveled internationally since the program began in 1946. For the first time, the program's board is meeting in…