CONWAY, Ark. (June 19, 2013) – Anna Broadwell-Gulde of Memphis, Tenn., was recently
selected for a Fulbright U.S. Student award for the Brazil English Teaching
Assistantship Program for 2013-14.
Broadwell-Gulde, an English major, graduated from Hendrix
in May.
Her Hendrix classmate Josephine Reece, a philosophy major from St. Paul, Minn., received
a Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in South Korea.
Established in
1946 under legislation introduced by then-Senator J. William Fulbright of
Arkansas, the Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational
exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs. It was designed to "increase mutual
understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other
countries."
Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in
engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the fifth consecutive year,
Hendrix was named one of the country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by
U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix
is featured in the 2012 edition of the Princeton Review as one of the country’s
best 377 colleges, the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change
the Way You Think about Colleges, Forbes magazine's annual
list of America's Top 650 Colleges, and the 2013 edition of the
Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist
Church since 1884. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.