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What more can I learn from Vietnamese studies course?
February 1, 2019
Cousin: “It’s not a surprise that you got into history major at your high school for the gifted.” Me: “Why is that?” Cousin: “You memorize all the important dates. You can pull historical facts out of thin air when asked. Since you were nine years old, you could cite all the Tran kings in chronological […]
Welcome the Year of the Pig
January 27, 2019
There are only more than one week left for the Lunar New Year, or Tet, Vietnam’s biggest and most important holiday. At Fulbright, students of the Co-Design Year welcome the Year of the Pig by bringing the true Vietnamese Tet atmosphere to our Crescent Campus.
New Approaches to University Education in Asia
January 23, 2019
Fulbright University Vietnam wishes to announce our annual conference on New Approaches to University Education in Asia. The 21st century has witnessed an unprecedented globalization of education, alongside the development of new pedagogies and epistemologies rooted in transnational research and local context. What does the future hold for higher-education in Asia? What role will policy, […]
Step out of our comfort zone
January 22, 2019
On the first day of the Rhetoric course, like the other classmates, I went to class with the expectation to be taught about writing and speaking. However, our professors – Kinho and Pam, woke the whole class up and reminded us that we were chosen to be Co-Designers. As Co-Designers, we were expected to contribute […]
From Mu Cang Chai to Fulbright
January 22, 2019
Khang A Tua’s journey from Mu Cang Chai to Fulbright is a long story with various ups and downs. Tua and other 53 students of the Co-Design Year at Fulbright receive full scholarship for this year, including tuition and fees, and living expenses. An excellent student from Mu Cang Chai The first time we met, […]
21st Century Ethics: Dr. Michael Puett Explained How We Can Become A Good Person
January 21, 2019
During his public talk at Fulbright University Vietnam, Dr. Michael Puett explained what it meant to be ethical from the view of Chinese philosophers. According to Dr. Puett, being ethical means breaking one’s patterns and forcing oneself to see the world in different perspective. Starting from the mundane everyday-life rituals, slowly one can see the […]
Vietnam Economy 2018 in Review and Orientation for 2019
January 20, 2019
From 17-18 January 2019, Dr. Vu Thanh Tu Anh, Dean of Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management, attended Vietnam Economic Forum 2019 (VEF). Continuing the success of the 1st and 2nd VEF in previous years, the 2019 VEF, featuring the main theme “Strengthening the fundamental drivers for rapid and sustainable growth” welcomed more than […]
Solutions to ensure energy security
January 20, 2019
In the agenda of Vietnam Economic Forum 2019, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Lecturer of Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management, moderated a panel discussion “Solutions to ensure energy security in the context of climate change”. The panelists feature representatives from Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Science and Technology, Mr. Kyle Kelhofer (Country […]
Vietnam – In Search of a New Growth Model?
January 14, 2019
On 9thJanuary 2019, in Singapore, Dr. Vu Thanh Tu Anh, Dean of Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management attended the Regional Outlook Forum 2019 organized by Yusof Ishak Institute. With more than 650 participants, Dr. Tu Anh joining with other distinguished scholars and intellectuals discussed macro trends, developments and challenges facing Southeast Asia in […]
Seminar on “Money, Monetary Policy and Central Banks”
January 5, 2019
On 4thJanuary 2019, Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management hosted the seminar on “Money, Monetary Policy and Central Banks”. Dr. Le Hong Giang, Director Investment Strategies, Tactical Global Management Limited summarized fundamentals of the nature of money, the role of central banks and how central banks regulate monetary policies. On these grounds, Dr. Giang […]
“I was wrong. That class was not a plain sailing.”
January 3, 2019
Creativity and Making was the most ‘‘stormy’’ class and, perhaps the most memorable in my exploration of a Liberal Arts environment!
Fulbright’s first Christmas season ever
December 27, 2018
Fulbright is like a cozy home full of ‘‘kids’’ eagerly counting down to the first Christmas! The librarian and the receptionists were undoubtedly the first ones to warm up the Christmas atmosphere around the Fulbright campus. At the beginning of December, they shaped a funny Olaf snowman from books on the reception desk, sticked cute […]
AmCham, Trust and Hope
December 27, 2018
On November 27, four students were chosen as Fulbright representatives at AmCham’s Bridging the Employment Demand – Supply Gap in the 21st Century event. Us freshmen who rarely receive such a chance to stand in front of important guests were all somewhat nervous, rehearsing the speeches under our breath. But Professor Ryan – Chief of […]
Fulbright signs MoU with College of Management, National Chi Nan University
December 26, 2018
Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management signed MOU with College of Management, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan. In the explorative fieldtrip to understand Taiwanese model for economic, industrial and regional development, on 25thDecember 2018, Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management (FSPPM), Fulbright University Vietnam signed Memorandum of Understanding with College of Management, National […]
Stop “Finding Yourself”: A Harvard Professor Reveals How Classical Chinese Philosophy Can Help Us Live a Good Life
December 25, 2018
Nowadays, it is not difficult to observe the flow of thoughts in our “flat world”. Let’s examine a recommended practice called “Finding oneself”, which is often translated into Vietnamese as khám phá bản thân. Let’s also try a Google search with that phrase: it takes only 0.58 second to yield 665,000 results. The search results […]
Christmas Challenge Week
December 23, 2018
Event Hub and Fulbrighter have experienced the most fun Christmas ever with Christmas Challenge Week! Christmas Challenge Week which was full of thrilling activities and challenges was the Christmas gift for Fulbrighters from Event Hub with the hope of ‘‘warming up’’ Christmas atmosphere and ‘‘cooling down’’ stressful feelings at the end of the course. […]
Who better to help launch the first liberal arts university in Vietnam?
December 21, 2018
Who better to help launch the first liberal arts university in Vietnam? At her high school in Hanoi, Vietnam, in spring 1997, Ngan Dinh’ 02 listened intently as an admissions expert from the United States explained the concept of the liberal arts and described the college he worked for, Bates. The ideas that the Bates expert, now-retired […]
A Mind on a Mission
December 20, 2018
Dr. Skultip (Jill) Sirikantraporn is a founding faculty of Fulbright University Vietnam. She used to be a licensed clinical psychologist in California and New York with research interests in trauma, resilience, and positive psychology in the context of cross-cultural and international psychology. Fulbright focuses on her story at our campus: Her smile pierced the thickest of […]
North Korea could learn from Vietnam?
December 17, 2018
In July, 2018, speaking to members of the U.S.-Vietnamese business community in Hanoi, Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State said Vietnam’s experience since the normalization of relations with the U.S. (1995) should be proof for North Korea that prosperity and partnership with the U.S. is possibleafter decades of conflict and mistrust. He suggested that North […]
Annual Conference of Korea Association for Public Administration
December 15, 2018
On 14-15 December, Dr. Bae Yooil, Lecturer at Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management, attended Annual Conference of Korea Association for Public Administration in Seoul, South Korea and presented a paper on recent global development of analytical framework for comparative ‘within-nation’ governance in global academia and its implication for South Korea’s decentralization research. He […]
