Rebecca Schwartz awarded a 2016-17 Fulbright fellowship

2016 May 23

Rebecca Schwartz was awarded a 2016-17 Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship for the Czech Republic.

Schwartz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Schwartz of West Hartford, Conn., is a 2012 graduate of Hall High School. She is majoring in American cultural studies at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program recently awarded 14 fellowships, both English teaching assistantships and research-study grants, to 11 Bates students and three alumni. Supporting an academic year of research or teaching in more than 155 countries outside the U.S., the program sends some 1,500 U.S. citizens abroad annually.

Bates is internationally recognized as a leading college of the liberal arts, attracting 2,000 students from across the U.S. and around the world. Since 1855, Bates has been dedicated to educating the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community.

With a commitment to affordability, Bates has always admitted students without regard to gender, race, religion or national origin. Cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action, Bates prepares leaders sustained by a love of learning and zeal for responsible stewardship of the wider world.