US EditionScholars stranded in America and abroad amid funding freeze of State Department programs
- Scholars are feeling panic due to a funding freeze affecting their programs, causing uncertainty about their future, according to the Fulbright Association.
- The Fulbright Association reports that the funding halt affects over 12,500 American students, youth, and professionals currently abroad.
- U.S. Programs hosting more than 7,400 individuals have also lost funding due to the pause.
- Lay expressed concern about the lack of communication from U.S. Officials, stating, 'I don’t want to be one more thing that is changing and uncertain in their lives.
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‘Very scary’: Scholars in US and abroad stuck amid State Department funding freeze
The funding freeze has sparked panic among thousands of scholars who area stranded outside their home countries without clarity on the future of their programs or the money needed to support themselves.
Tucson (AZ), 10 Mar (EFE).- About 5,000 employees of unaccompanied migrant children’s shelters in Arizona, Texas and California have been temporarily “suspended” because of the federal funding brake ordered by Donald Trump’s government, although many of them report on networks that are about permanent layoffs. “Because of the freezing of federal funds and an order to suspend our work by the Refugee Relocation Office (ORR) we have had to make the…
'Very scary': Scholars in US and abroad stuck amid State Department funding freeze
Fulbright scholar Aubrey Lay was supposed to get paid for three months of work by the U.S. government through his teaching assistantship at a school for Ukrainian refugees in Estonia. Instead, he only got about one week's pay and no word on when he might see the rest of his grant. Lay is among scholars around the world who depend on State Department funding to participate in long-established programs like Fulbright and say their payments were ab…
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Independent EspañolAubrey Lay, a Fulbright fellow, was to be paid for three months of work by the U.S. government through his teaching assistance at a Ukrainian refugee school in Estonia.
Aubrey Lay, a Fulbright Scholar, was to receive payment for three months' work from the United States government through her teaching assistance at a school for Ukrainian refugees in Estonia. Instead, he only received payment from...
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Scholars stranded in America and abroad amid funding freeze of state department programs
The funding freeze sparked panic among thousands of scholars who are stranded outside their home countries and left without clarity on the future of their programs.
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