(PDF) (DOC) (JPG)September 21, 1999

(Mahwah) – William Frech, Ph.D., associate professor of international business at Ramapo College of New Jersey, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to lecture at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the spring and summer of 2000.

Frech, a resident of Franklin Lakes, is one of approximately 200 U.S. grantees who will travel abroad for the 1999-2000 academic year through the Fulbright Program. He will lecture on international business subjects to assist in the post-communist transformation to a market economy. He is chairman of the International Business Department at Ramapo and has been a co-director of the college’s study abroad programs in China and the Czech Republic. Before his appointment to the Ramapo faculty, he was an international marketing executive for IBM Corporation.

Established in 1946 under Congressional legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program is designed “to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.” Fulbright alumni include President Fernando Cardoso of Brazil; NATO Secretary General Javier Solana; U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan; Nobel Prize winners Joshua Lederberg, Hans Bethe and Milton Friedman; writers John Updike, Eudora Welty and Joseph Heller; actors Stacy Keach and John Lithgow; musicians Aaron Copland and Anna Mofo; and journalists Hal Bruno, Roger Rosenblatt and Hedrick Smith.

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Ramapo College of New Jersey is the state’s premier public liberal arts college and is committed to academic excellence through interdisciplinary and experiential learning, and international and intercultural understanding. The comprehensive college is situated among the beautiful Ramapo Mountains, is within commuting distance to New York City, was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful College Campuses in America by CondeNast Traveler, and boasts the best on-campus housing in New Jersey per Niche.com. Established in 1969, Ramapo College offers bachelor’s degrees in the arts, business, data science, humanities, social sciences and the sciences, as well as in professional studies, which include business, education, nursing and social work. In addition, the College offers courses leading to teacher certification at the elementary and secondary levels, and offers graduate programs leading to master’s degrees in Accounting, Applied Mathematics, Business Administration, Contemporary Instructional Design, Computer Science, Creative Music Technology, Data Science, Educational Leadership, Nursing, Social Work and Special Education, as well as a Doctor of Nursing Practice.

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