Fulbright Peace Fountain

Fulbright College dedicated the peace fountain on October 24, 1998, in tribute to the legacy of J. William Fulbright. Fulbright believed that education, particularly study abroad, has the power to promote tolerance and understanding among nations.

The Fulbright Scholarship Program, now in its 59th year, operates in 151 countries. More than 250,000 people around the world have won Fulbright grants, including professors, scientists, musicians, ambassadors and artists.

At the fountain dedication ceremony, Edward T. Foote, Fulbright's son-in-law, said he liked to think of students “sitting and admiring the magnificent monument, talking and thinking in this place of books, in this place of ideas, in this place of human understanding.”