Professor wins Fulbright
to teach in Macedonia

Business administration professor Beth Richardson has been awarded a
Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at the Institute of Economics of the
University of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia, during
the 2006 academic spring semester.
Richardson, a graduate of Bowdoin College and American University’s Washington
College of Law, will instruct graduate business students in business ethics and
human resource management. Her Fulbright award is part of a new initiative in
Macedonia to support the country’s goal of European Union membership through
developing ethical business practices and creative management techniques for
MBA students. Until 1991, Macedonia was a republic in the former Yugoslavia.
Richardson is a former Vice President of Human Resources for
Fairchild Semiconductor and Enterasys Networks. She spent considerable
time overseas working with the companies’ Asian and European workforces.
She is certified by the Institute for Global Ethics as an ethics trainer
and has conducted the institute’s
ethical fitness training for business majors at Saint Joseph’s College
for the last year.
Richardson is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals
who will travel abroad to some 140 countries for the 2005-2006 academic
year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under
legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas,
the program’s purpose is
to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other
countries. The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational
exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational
and Cultural Affairs.
Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis
of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated
extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.
• http://exchanges.state.gov/education/fulbright
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