Elizabethtown College faculty member named Fulbright Scholar

Spending next academic year in Vietnam

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Peggy McFarland

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (05/03/2014)(readMedia)-- Peggy McFarland, social work professor at Elizabethtown College, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for the 2014-2015 academic year.

McFarland, a licensed clinical social worker, who has been with the College since 1990, will teach social work at the Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities. The focus of her teaching and research is on the growing needs of the geriatric population in Vietnam and the accompanying need for trained geriatric social workers.

This prominent award is a testament of her work and dedication and the support received from other Elizabethtown faculty and staff members.

Since 1946, the Fulbright Program has been dedicated to supporting mutual understanding between the United States and other countries. In 1925 after J. William Fulbright graduated from college, he left Arkansas to continue his studies at Oxford University. During his travel across Europe he learned about lives of those he met along the way. Twenty years after graduation from law school and service as a university president, Fulbright became a junior senator. In this position he introduced legislation to use funds from surplus war materials for an international educational exchange program. In 1946 President Harry Truman signed legislation to support the Fulbright Program, an international scholarship.

Today, through the State Department, the Fulbright Program reaches out to 150 countries around the world with the goal of mutual understanding between the award recipient and the community in which they serve. They become cultural ambassadors who educate others about their home country while taking information about their host country back to their home.

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