In the beginning of 1991, the U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, Shirley Temple-Black and the Czechoslovak Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jiri Dienstbier, signed an Agreement for the Establishment of the J. William Fulbright Commission for Educational Exchange in the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. The Commission started its work in September 1991. The J. William Fulbright Commission were divided to Czech and Slovak Commision after the split of Czechoslovakia. The members of the Board are appointed by the Ambassador of the United States to the Czech Republic and the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic. One of the responsibilities of the Board is to set priority fields of study.
Priorities are regulary evaluated and modified if needed.
Commission itself contains Program Department, Advising Center and Secretary. Commission is headed by the Executive Director. Aims and Activities Fulbright Commission in the Czech Republic follows aims of the Fulbright Program . The applicants in priority fields will be more competetive only in case of having the same quality of project. Fulbright Commission in CR administers also other types of US educational program offered to the Czech Republic as Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program or Summer Institutes.