Friday, December 17, 2004
Benedict
College Faculty Member Receives Fulbright Scholar
Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Columbia, S.C. – A Benedict College
professor has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant
to lecture at the University of Music and Drama in
Hannover, Germany in the spring semester.
Dr. Ronald High (photo),
Associate Professor of Fine Arts/Music Department
at Benedict College, will lecture from January to
April 2005 in the studies of African-American vocal
music genres in history, performance, and pedagogy.
Dr. High is one of approximately
800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel
abroad to some 140 countries for the 2004-2005 academic
year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established
in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late
Senator 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
is America’s flagship international and educational
exchange activity, sponsored by the U.S. Department
of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Throughout its 58 years of existence, thousands of
U.S. faculty and professionals have studied, taught
or done research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts
from other countries have engaged in similar activities
in the United States. They are among more than 250,000
American and foreign university students, K-12 teachers,
and university faculty and professionals who have
participated in one of the several Fulbright exchange
programs.
Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected
on the basis of academic or professional achievement
and because they have demonstrated extraordinary
leadership in their fields. Among thousands of prominent
U.S. Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton Friedman,
Nobel Laureate in Economics; James Watson, co-discoverer
of the structure of DNA and Nobel Laureate in Medicine;
Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; and Craig
Barrett, CEO of Intel Corporation.
For more information about the Fulbright Scholar
Program, please contact Nancy Santos Gainer, director
of external relations, Council for International
Exchange of Scholars at 202-686-4014; e-mail: ngainer@cies.iie.org;
website: www.cies.org.
Source: Office of Public Relations
