By Morgan Keller

The award I applied for and received is the U.S.-Korea Fulbright International Education Administrators (IEA) Award for 2026-2027. Through this amazing experience, I am learning about the Korean higher education system and how they approach aspects of international education related to my work and areas of interest as an international educator. Specifically, I am learning about how Korean institutions support and foster success and persistence for the international students they host. It has been very interesting learning about the international student support programs they offer as well as how Korea’s student visa and immigration system functions in comparison to ours in the U.S. In addition, with my work and interest in campus internationalization, it has been intriguing to learn about how Korean institutions define and pursue internationalizing their universities in different ways.

Each day, our cohort of nine international educators from institutions all over the U.S. visit two Korean universities—one in the morning and one in the afternoon. For the first week, we are based in Seoul and then for the second week we are traveling to different cities around the country to visit other institutions, eventually journeying down to Busan in the south where incidentally, my cousin, Adam Keller ’14, a Wesleyan alum, taught with the English Program in Korea (EPIK) for four years and met his Korean wife. We have some excursions to famous historic sites and cultural activities built into the two-week program, and I have really enjoyed learning about Korean culture, history, and language through this wonderful experience so far!