Providence, R.I.--Dr. John B. Nonnamaker, Providence College executive director for career services, has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar to the International Education Administrators Program.

The program introduces higher-education administrators with responsibility for students who study internationally to cultural and academic elements of the host country. Nonnamaker will travel to Germany for two weeks in October to participate in a group seminar on German higher education and society.

The program, which will take participants to Berlin and other cities, will include briefings, government appointments, campus visits, and cultural events.

"I am delighted to have been chosen to participate," said Nonnamaker. "I am particularly interested in learning how German institutions of higher education provide career services for their students and how they help students who have had study or internship abroad experiences articulate the skills they acquired to employers."

The seminar was open to full-time administrators affiliated with a four- or two-year college, university, or nonprofit international educational exchange organization. Approximately 25 administrators from American institutions were selected.

The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government's flagship international educational exchange program. It was proposed in 1945 by U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright as a vehicle for promoting mutual understanding between people of the U.S. and other countries. The program was signed into law by President Harry S. Truman in 1946.

Nonnamaker came to PC in March from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he served as associate director of the Global Education and Career Development Center.

Over the past 25 years, he has worked in capacities ranging from graduate resident advisor, to director of campus activities, to assistant dean of students. His career has taken him to Fordham University, Marquette University, the University of California at Berkeley, Emerson College, the College of Notre Dame, and Michigan State University.

Nonnamaker said he expects the Fulbright program to inform his position and perspective.

"I have never had the opportunity to participate in this type of program in the past and am very happy to have this opportunity now," he said. "I feel that this program will help me to better serve the increasing number of PC students participating in study abroad in helping them identify and articulate to employers the global competencies that they have gained."

--Joe Miller '10

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