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Table of ContentsExecutive Summary 1Letter from the Executive Director 2Highlights from the Program Year 2007-2008 3Program Implementation 5Alumni Activities 7Summary of Non-Grant Areas 8Advising 11Financial Matters 14Board of Directors and Staff 15Report from Governing Board FY 2008 16Auditors Report 17Financial statements for FY 2008 18APPENDIX I: 2007-08 Grantees 21page 2
Executive SummaryThe Annual Program Report covers the period from August 2007 up to July 2008. During this time, theHonorary Chairs of the Fulbright Board were Mr. Benson K. Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to Norway, and Mr.Jonas Gahr Støre, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Eight distinguished members, four American and fourNorwegian, make up the Fulbright Governing Board in Norway and four staffers work at the office (pleaserefer to page 15). Funding is allocated from the U.S. State Department and the Norwegian Ministry ofEducation and Research and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (please refer to page 14).The Fulbright Program has been described as one of the largest and most significant movements of scholarsand students across the globe. According to Senator Fulbright, “The Fulbright Program aims to bring a littlemore knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increasethe chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.”During the 2007-08 academic year, the U.S.-Norway Fulbright Foundation for Educational Exchange was ableto fund seventy-eight (78) grantees altogether. Thirty (30) were from the U.S. and included nine (9) seniorscholars, fifteen (15) students, four (4) senior specialists and two (2) inter-country lecturers. Of the total offorty-seven (47) Norwegian recipients, nine (9) were senior scholars, twenty-four (24) students, five (5)students receiving renewal awards, four (4) teachers and five (5) outstanding young student leaders (pleaserefer to Appendix I).The U.S.-Norway Fulbright Foundation for Educational Exchange was set up in 1949 to administer theFulbright Program. We are proud to refer you at the end of this report to the 2007-2008 grantees that wereawarded Fulbright stipends and their wide range of academic fields and host institutionsTotal GranteesAmericansNorwegiansAmerican GranteesSenior SpecialistsSenior ScholarsStudentsNorwegian GranteesSenior ScholarsStudents14%39%35%61%54%32%65%page 1
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Page 7 and 8: The 2007-08 US Grantees to Norway.
Page 9 and 10: Summer Institute for Outstanding Eu
Page 11 and 12: Orientation for Norwegian grantees,
Page 13 and 14: Program Officer Tove Knudsen gives
Page 15 and 16: from May 25 - 30, 2008, attracting
Page 17 and 18: Left to Right: Kristen Bauer, Kevin
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Page 21 and 22: U.S.-Norway Fulbright Foundation fo
Page 23 and 24: Breakdown of grants for 2007/2008:U
Page 25 and 26: Kirsti KletteCurrent affiliation: U
Page 27 and 28: Cato WittusenCurrent affiliation: U
Page 29 and 30: Abbey SchneiderCurrent Affiliation:
Page 31 and 32: Academic DisciplinePurpose of Grant

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