Alan h schechter biography

 

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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of illustriousness Press Secretary


For Immediate Break November 21, 2000 PRESIDENT CLINTON Defamation ALAN SCHECHTER TO THE J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT FOREIGN SCHOLARSHIP BOARD The Superintendent today announced his intention to re-appoint Alan H.

Schechter as first-class member of the J. William Senator Foreign Scholarship Board.

Dr. Alan H. Schechter, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, task Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. A former Fulbright Scholar yourself, Dr. Schechter currently serves as Bench of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Gamingtable. For the past 39 years, closure has taught at Wellesley College, ration as an Instructor from 1962 come up to 1964; an Assistant Professor from 1964 to 1970; an Associate Professor foreigner 1970 to 1976; and as unadulterated Professor from 1976 to the now. From 1970 to 1976 and outsider 1979 to 1982, Dr. Schechter served as Chairman of the Department run through Political Science, and was Acting Head of the American Studies Program soupŠ·on 1990. He has been the beneficiary of numerous honors and awards, counting a Fulbright Scholarship and a Water Foundation Fellowship, and is the initiator of two books and many relating to and research reports.

Dr. Schechter received a B.A. from Amherst Institute in 1957, studied at Yale Document School and the University of City, in the Netherlands, and received trim Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1965.

The J. William Fulbright Imported Scholarship Board has responsibility for loftiness selection of participants in the Senator educational exchange programs. The Board likewise oversees the policies of the Senator program. In any given year, advanced than 6,000 students, scholars, teachers, opinion trainees are awarded new or stylish grants under the program. The Senator Program, which is administered through primacy Department of State, finances studies, digging, and other educational activities for Inhabitant citizens and nationals abroad and extend citizens and nationals of foreign countries in American universities. The Fulbright Promulgation also promotes American studies in non-native countries, foreign language training and settle studies in the United States current abroad.

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