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...25th year. The Business School's International Teachers program is also thriving. Although less than 10 percent of the Mason fellows come from a strictly academic background, a substantial number of the program graduates become a channel of academic export upon returning to their home countries, says Nancy Pyle, director of the program. In developing countries, governments maintain closer links with universities, frequently asking former ministers to teach, Pyle notes. In addition, the contacts the fellows make with K-School professors often prompt them to ask for help in setting up programs based on their K-School experience...
...Pyle said that some Mason fellows are so impressed with what they have learned about management that they want to import their favorite courses lock, stock, and travel. One farmer minister in the Burmess government upon returning home from his year as a Mason fellow persuaded his government to establish a K-School courses on microeconomics as part of the curriculum at the University of Rangoon. He wired the Kennedy School and asked for the entire course packet to be sent special delivery...
...took its fellows on a field trip to Egypt this spring, faculty at the American University of Cairo unexpectedly asked Academic Dean Albert Carnesale for help in setting up a public policy curriculum. This fall, one of those professors will enroll at the K-School as a Mason fellow, Pyle said, adding, "This man's presence in the Mason fellow program will be the takeoff point for the development of a new curriculum in Egypt...
...employers will remark on his courage and devotion to duty, his colleagues on his professionalism; from close friends and family will come expressions of grief or anger. Occasionally, in the case of celebrities, a President will offer a eulogy, as did Harry Truman for Ernie Pyle, killed in the South Pacific in 1945: "No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as the American fighting man wanted it told." The standard was dubious, but the praise sincere. For the public these moments pass rather quickly, like any death...
...took its fellows on a field trip to Egypt this spring, faculty at the American University of Cairo unexpectedly asked Academic Dean Albert Carnesale for help in setting up a public policy curriculum. This fall, one of those professors will enroll at the K-School as a Mason fellow, Pyle said, adding. "This man's presence in the Mason fellow program will be the take off point for the development of a new curriculum in Egypt...