Tabor College faculty member receives Fulbright Scholar Award
Dr. Richard Kyle, professor of history and religious studies at Tabor College, Hillsboro, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture American Studies at Grodno State University, Grodno, Belarus, from February to June 2006, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
"I am very proud that Dr. Kyle has been accepted as a Fulbright Scholar," said Dr. Lawrence Ressler, vice president of academics and student development. "This is a great honor for any faculty member. The fact that this is the second time he has been accepted as a Fulbright Scholar is even more impressive."
Kyle previously taught American Studies during the spring 2000 semester at the National University of Kiev Mohyla Academy, Kiev, Ukraine.
"Dr. Kyle's honor speaks not only of the quality of one faculty member at Tabor," said Ressler, "it speaks for the quality of Tabor's teaching faculty as a whole."
Kyle is one of approximately 850 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 150 countries for the 2005-06 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, America's flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over its 59 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 265,000 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 potential in their fields.
