NGCSU faculty member receives Fulbright Specialists Award

DAHLONEGA - Dr. Elisabeth Teal, associate professor of business administration in the Mike Cottrell School of Business at North Georgia College & State University, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists project at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, Romania this summer.

Teal will work with entrepreneurship colleagues and undergraduate students to develop business plans for new ventures in Romania. She will also provide master's and doctoral-level seminars about the research process. This Fulbright Specialists Grant enables continued scholarly cooperation between Cuza University and North Georgia College & State University.

Teal is one of more than 400 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad this year through the Fulbright Specialists Program. The Fulbright Specialists Program, created in 2000 to complement the traditional Fulbright Scholar Program, provides short-term academic opportunities (two to six weeks) to prominent U.S. faculty and professionals to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at post-secondary, academic institutions around the world.

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 60 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have taught, studied or conducted research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the United States. More than 285,000 emerging leaders in their professional fields have received Fulbright awards, including individuals who later became heads of government, Nobel Prize winners, and leaders in education, business, journalism, the arts and other fields.