The chancellor of the University of Helsinki told a newspaper last month that US authorities had pressured the university to remove certain terms from its press release about Fulbright scholarships.
The chancellor of the University of Helsinki told a newspaper last month that US authorities had pressured the university to remove certain terms from its press release about Fulbright scholarships.
This kind of thinking is why no one has the spine to fight Trump. “If we don’t compromise our values and adopt fascist ones then we’ll lose the whole program” if a program has to bow to fascism to survive it’s better off dead. This is Trump’s doing NOT a Finish advertisement that’s getting these programs shut down. If you don’t pay the ransom it’s still the kidnapper that killed the victim not you.
I think you are missing my point. The Fulbright program was started by the US that does exchange between the US and other countries, and the cost is shared. The trump administration is cutting funding for anything it disagrees with.
If the University of Helsinki advertises to US students to come to Helsinki to research climate change through this US program, the US just won’t fund it. Likewise if they advertise to Finnish students to go research equitable housing policies at an American university, the US just won’t fund it.
The only people hurt by advertising for people to do Fulbrights on topics the trump administration doesn’t like are the people who want to do that kind of research who will fill out applications that will never be funded. If you are asking people to submit proposals on those topics, you are asking them to waste their time.
Obviously, Finland can (and I really hope they do) fund Americans to study in Finland, and Finns to study in the US, independently of the Fulbright program, but the fulbright program itself is subject to the whims of the US govt.