60 years of the Franco-American Commission and the bi-national administration of the Fulbright Program in France

60 years of the Franco-American Commission and the bi-national administration of the Fulbright Program in France

60 years ago today, on May 7, 1965, Charles de Gaulle signed with the U.S. administration of Lyndon B. Johnson a cultural agreement creating the Franco-American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchanges and providing it with a bilateral system for funding these scholarship programs.

This marked an evolution of the Fulbright Program in France (which had existed since the first agreement of October 22, 1948) towards a binational administration.