Faculty Kudos

Ali Thobani, director of the Institute for International and Intercultural Education, has been awarded a $68,000 Fulbright grant to conduct a seminar in Egypt for four Metro State faculty and four teachers each from Thornton and Overland high schools. The seminar will consist of six weeks of in-depth study of Egypt including five weeks in Egypt. Because of the war, the seminar has been deferred a year to summer of 2004.

Assistant Professor of Industrial Design David Klein and Kelly Felice, director of the Center for Nonprofit Organization Administration, will attend a five-week seminar in the Czech and Slovak Republic through the Fulbright Hays Seminars Abroad Program, which works to help educators improve their understanding and knowledge of the people and culture of other countries. Klein plans to incorporate what he learns into one of his classes, "History of Industrial Product Design." To enhance her curriculum, Felice hopes to learn more about non-governmental organizations and the role they will play as the Republic emerges from a post-communist economy.

Herbert W. Stoughton, head of the Surveying and Mapping Program has won the 2003 Surveying Excellence Award by the National Society of Professional Surveyors. The award recognizes the individual who has made an outstanding contribution or has performed an outstanding service to the surveying profession.

Stoughton has been a professional land surveyor for nearly 45 years and has expanded the Metro State curriculum to include 31 courses, offer classes to off-campus sites, develop transfer-credit programs for numerous post-secondary institutions and prepare the program for accreditation. His efforts have helped the program increase its enrollment by more than 150 percent.