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Emeriti faculty selected as specialists to Latvia
August 24, 2007
Two PLU business emeriti faculty, Dave McNabb and Gundar King, were selected to teach in Latvia through the Fulbright Senior Specialists program.
The Fulbright Senior Specialists program places approved candidates on a roster for five years. The roster is used to match the senior specialists with program requests from foreign academic institutions. Selected specialists spend two to six weeks at the foreign institution, and they are able to participate in one project per year.
McNabb, a former visiting business professor, has already departed for a 32-day stint teaching business to students at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia. The school caters to students from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.
While at PLU, McNabb taught both undergraduate and graduate marketing courses. He has taught abroad at the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden, the American University in Bulgaria and all over Europe for the Department of Defense.
Meanwhile King, dean emeritus of the School of Business, will be teaching at the Riga Aviation Institute during the month of October. He departs for Europe in mid-September.
During his tenure as dean, King oversaw the accreditation of the School of Business’ bachelor’s, master’s and professional accounting programs. In the past 15 years, King led a number PLU faculty teams to his native Latvia to teach courses in Western management, marketing, finance and entrepreneurship.
The specialist program is different from the Fulbright Scholar competition because the roster, which is built by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, lists qualified academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines. The candidates apply through an open application process, and are included after receiving approval from a peer review committee and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Foreign institutions access the roster through a secure Web site, which is searchable by a variety of criteria such as discipline and specialization. The Fulbright Commission, U.S. Embassy and the U.S. Department of State must approve a proposed project before a specialist will be matched to it.
McNabb, a former visiting business professor, has already departed for a 32-day stint teaching business to students at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia. The school caters to students from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.
While at PLU, McNabb taught both undergraduate and graduate marketing courses. He has taught abroad at the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden, the American University in Bulgaria and all over Europe for the Department of Defense.
Meanwhile King, dean emeritus of the School of Business, will be teaching at the Riga Aviation Institute during the month of October. He departs for Europe in mid-September.
During his tenure as dean, King oversaw the accreditation of the School of Business’ bachelor’s, master’s and professional accounting programs. In the past 15 years, King led a number PLU faculty teams to his native Latvia to teach courses in Western management, marketing, finance and entrepreneurship.
The specialist program is different from the Fulbright Scholar competition because the roster, which is built by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, lists qualified academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines. The candidates apply through an open application process, and are included after receiving approval from a peer review committee and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Foreign institutions access the roster through a secure Web site, which is searchable by a variety of criteria such as discipline and specialization. The Fulbright Commission, U.S. Embassy and the U.S. Department of State must approve a proposed project before a specialist will be matched to it.