For Immediate Release
GLEF Executive Director Receives Fulbright New Century Scholars Award
San Rafael, CA (February 26, 2007) -- Dr. Milton Chen, executive director of The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF), has been awarded a Fulbright New Century Scholars (NCS) grant for the 2007-2008 academic year. Chen is one of thirty-six top scholars and practitioners from twenty-five countries and regions who have been selected to examine the topic "Higher Education in the 21st Century: Access & Equity," according to the U.S. State Department and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
As a Fulbright New Century Scholar, this fall Chen will spend ten weeks at the University of Edinburgh's Scottish Interactive Technology Centre as part of an individual research project on model schools and colleges of education. He will also meet three times during the program year with fellow Fulbright New Century Scholars to share research, exchange perspectives, and pursue collaborative activities in seminar meetings in Buffalo, New York, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Washington, DC.
"I'm very honored to join this distinguished group of international researchers and contribute to the original mission of the Fulbright program, established more than sixty years ago, to advance the cause of global peace through education and exchange across borders," says Chen.
Sponsored by the State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in partnership with the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), the New Century Scholars Program is an international interdisciplinary program that brings together outstanding research scholars and professionals from around the world to explore issues of global significance for one year. Now in its fifth year, the program, designed for high-quality research, provides a platform for a multinational group of outstanding scholars and professionals from different spheres to focus on a single issue of concern to people worldwide, and to produce a body of multidisciplinary research and analysis that might serve as the basis for innovative approaches to policy issues of universal concern.
About The George Lucas Educational Foundation:
The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF), founded in 1991, is a nonprofit operating foundation that documents and disseminates information about exemplary programs in K-12 schools to help these practices spread nationwide. It serves this mission through the creation of media, from films, books, and e-newsletters to CD-ROMs and DVDs. Its magazine Edutopia, Web site Edutopia.org, and documentaries celebrate the unsung heroes across the nation who are making "Edutopia" a reality.
