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Dr. Tracey Hidalgo, assistant director in the Office of International Student and Scholar Services, spent two weeks in South Korea in June on a fully funded Fulbright grant to learn about Korean education, language, culture and history.<\/p><\/div>\n
The Fulbright program is devoted to increasing mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries through international educational exchanges. IEA awards are fully funded opportunities for U.S. higher education administrators to participate intensive two-week seminars abroad to learn about other countries\u2019 higher education systems.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had the opportunity to meet with higher education professionals like myself to learn about these institutions and discuss topics,\u201d she said. “Some topics included campus internationalization, the Korean immigration system for students who are foreign nationals, Korea as an education abroad destination and opportunities for collaboration between institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scheduled from June 9 to June 22, the trip led Hidalgo to visit 14 higher education institutions throughout South Korea, as well as leaving time to visit historical landmarks such as the Deoksugung Palace, Uam Historic Park and the Jeonju Hanok village.<\/p>\n
\u201cI made so many invaluable connections with colleagues in South Korea, which gives me an additional connection to the country and my experiences there,\u201d she said. \u201cKoreans are very friendly and welcoming to foreign nationals. This is something I would have never learned had I not visited South Korea myself.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am passionate about cultural understanding and exchange,\u201d Hidalgo added. \u201cLearning more about South Korea and the Korean higher education system will help me better understand the students coming to study in the U.S. and give me the knowledge I need to encourage more students from The University of Toledo to study abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Tracey Hidalgo, assistant director in the Office of International Student and Scholar Services, traveled to South Korea for two weeks in June on a fully funded Fulbright grant to learn about Korean education, language, culture and history. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":914,"featured_media":88424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,356,1,3,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88422"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88428,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88422\/revisions\/88428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Dr.](\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Traceyhildago4-150x150.jpg\")
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