COLCHESTER, VT- A Washingtonville, N.Y., resident has been awarded a prestigious and highly competitive Fulbright scholarship to study in Vietnam over the coming year.
Hayley Jensen is a 2022 graduate of Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont, who earned her degree in International Relations with minors in Peace and Justice and Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL). She was one of three Fulbright scholarship winners at Saint Michael’s College this year, which also had two alternates and two semifinalists. Fulbright scholarships are highly competitive international grants given to students, scholars, professors and young professionals to study, research or teach overseas.
Jensen has been working overseas over the past year in Thailand. At Saint Michael’s, she completed the College’s Peace Corps Prep program, was a member of the Honors Program, and was the winner of the Senior Award for Community Service. Jensen was also inducted into Phi Beta Kappa – the oldest and most prestigious academic honor society in the U.S. – as well as Pi Sigma Alpha, the national academic honor society for Political Science, and Delta Epsilon Sigma, a national scholastic honor society for students at Catholic colleges. She graduated summa cum laude.
The Fulbright Program, which has fostered mutual understanding between the U.S. and other countries since 1946, offers about 8,000 scholarships per year to people in the U.S. and in 160 countries. Among the ranks of Fulbright alumni are 62 Nobel Prize recipients, 78 MacArthur Foundation Fellows, 89 Pulitzer Prize winners, and 41 current or former heads of state or government, according to the U.S. Department of State.
