© Austrian-American Educational Commission, 2011 AUSTRIAN-AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL COMMISSION ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................ 1 I. THE AUSTRIAN-AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL COMMISSION BOARD ................................... 3 II. PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS ......................................................................................................... 4 III. THE FULBRIGHT AWARDS .................................................................................................... 8 AUSTRIAN STUDENTS .................................................................................................................. 8 AUSTRIAN TEACHING ASSISTANTS .............................................................................................. 11 AUSTRIAN SCHOLARS ................................................................................................................ 14 U.S. STUDENTS ........................................................................................................................ 15 U.S. LECTURERS/RESEARCHERS ............................................................................................... 18 FULBRIGHT SPECIALIST PROGRAM ............................................................................................. 20 INTERCOUNTRY LECTURE PROGRAM .......................................................................................... 20 IV. THE U.S. FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIP PROGRAM .................... 21 V. ADDITIONAL FULBRIGHT ACTIVITIES ................................................................................ 23 SEPTEMBER ORIENTATION ......................................................................................................... 23 STAFF TRAINING IN WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK ...................................................................... 23 U.S. AMBASSADOR’S RECEPTION ............................................................................................... 23 FULBRIGHT PRIZE IN AMERICAN STUDIES ................................................................................... 24 FEBRUARY ORIENTATION FOR U.S. SCHOLARS ........................................................................... 24 ALTENMARKT SEMINAR IN AMERICAN STUDIES ............................................................................ 25 PRE-DEPARTURE ORIENTATION AND FAREWELL DINNER ............................................................. 26 JULY ORIENTATION FOR CANDIDATES FOR FULBRIGHT STUDENT AWARDS ................................... 26 EDUCATIONAL ADVISING/PUBLIC INFORMATION ........................................................................... 27 ALUMNI ACTIVITIES .................................................................................................................... 28 DOCUMENTATION ..................................................................................................................... 29 DOCUMENTATION NO. 1: 2010-11 IN BRIEF .............................................................................. 29 BREAKDOWN BY CATEGORIES OF SUPPORT: AAEC GRANTEES, 2010-11 ..................................... 30 DOCUMENTATION NO. 2: PROGRAM INCOME AND EXPENSES ....................................................... 31 In Kind-Contributions: Complementary Fulbright Program Values .................................... 32 Administration ..................................................................................................................... 32 DOCUMENTATION NO. 3: FINANCING THE FULBRIGHT PROGRAM: 1951-52 – 2010-11 .................. 33 DOCUMENTATION NO. 4: THE FULBRIGHT PROGRAM IN AUSTRIA ................................................. 34 DOCUMENTATION NO. 5: TOTAL PARTICIPANTS BY DISCIPLINE 2010-11 ...................................... 36 DOCUMENTATION NO. 6: AMERICAN PROFESSORS AT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION: 1951-52 – 2010-11 ............................................................................................... 37 DOCUMENTATION NO. 7: BREAKDOWN U.S. TEACHING ASSISTANTS 2010-11 .............................. 38 DOCUMENTATION NO. 8: BREAKDOWN AUSTRIAN STUDENTS AND FLTAS 2010-11 ...................... 39 FULBRIGHT PROGRAM ............................................................................................................ 40 AUSTRIAN AND U.S. PARTICIPANTS 2010/11 ........................................................................ 40 AUSTRIAN FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS (4) ......................................................................................... 41 FULBRIGHT-SCHUMAN GRANTEES (3)......................................................................................... 41 U.S. FULBRIGHT GUEST PROFESSORS AND SCHOLARS (14) ....................................................... 41 U.S. FULBRIGHT SPECIALISTS (2) .............................................................................................. 42 INTERCOUNTRY LECTURE PARTICIPANTS (5) ............................................................................... 42 AUSTRIAN FULBRIGHT STUDENTS IN THE U.S. (17) ..................................................................... 43 U.S. FULBRIGHT STUDENTS AT AUSTRIAN UNIVERSITIES (14) ..................................................... 43 AUSTRIAN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING ASSISTANTS AT U.S. COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (13) ................................................................................................................................................ 44 U.S. FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING ASSISTANTS AT AUSTRIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS - A PROGRAM COORDINATED BY THE FULBRIGHT COMMISSION FOR THE AUSTRIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, THE ARTS AND CULTURE (140) ............................................................................... 45 AUSTRIAN FULBRIGHT STUDENTS IN THE U.S. ............................................................................ 54 PROGRAM EXTENSIONS FROM PREVIOUS ACADEMIC YEARS (25) .................................................. 54 1 ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011 (October 1, 2010 - September 30, 2011) INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Fulbright Program is based on legislation initially proposed and sponsored by U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright (Arkansas) in 1946. The legislation, best known as the Fulbright Act, authorized the Secretary of State to use proceeds from the sale of surplus war property outside the United States to finance exchanges of students, teachers, scholars, and scientists. This legislation provided an unprecedented amount of funding for exchange programs. It gave international students and scholars unparalleled opportunities to study, to pursue research, and to teach in the United States and provided U.S. citizens with equally unparalleled opportunities to engage in the same kinds of pursuits abroad. The Fulbright Program also introduced a new concept for the management of exchange agreements by establishing binational commissions for program administration. In 1961 the Fulbright-Hays Act consolidated various pieces of educational and cultural exchange legislation. Fulbright-Hays broadened the scope of the program, provided for U.S. government funding thereof as a line item in the federal budget, and authorized the receipt of contributions from other governments to fund the program. The Act also expressly defined the mandate of the Fulbright Program as follows: "to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the peoples of other countries by means of educational and cultural exchange." The Fulbright program in Austria began in June 1950 when the Austrian and U.S. governments signed the first of three Fulbright Agreements. The first exchanges under the auspices of the U.S. Educational Commission in Austria took place during the 1951-52 academic year. After the Fulbright-Hays Act was passed in 1961, a new Agreement between the Republic of Austria and the United States of America was signed on June 25, 1963 establishing the Austrian-American Educational Commission (AAEC) as a binational entity capable of receiving funds from both partner governments and responsible for the execution of the Fulbright Program. The following report summarizes the activities conducted by the Austrian-American Educational Commission from October 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011 during the 60th year of Fulbright exchanges between Austria and the United States of America. This report is submitted to the governments of the Republic of Austria and the United States of America to satisfy the requirement of annual reporting, as stipulated under the terms of the 1963 binational Agreement, and is also made available to institutions and individuals with an expressed interest in the Fulbright Program. It is prepared in English and in German. The AAEC and its secretariat wish to express their appreciation to the following governmental and non- governmental organizations on both sides of the Atlantic that participate in the funding and administration of the program: Austrian Ministry of Education, the Arts and Culture Austrian Ministry for European and International Affairs Austrian Ministry of Science and Research Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State (formerly the United States Information Agency) Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Washington, D.C. Institute of International Education, New York, NY J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, Washington, D.C. U.S. Embassy, Vienna (Public