Gary Hunter is looking forward to teaching German students about
American retail businesses, and to learning more about retail businesses in
Europe. Hunter, a professor in Illinois State University s Marketing
Department, will be a visiting Fulbright Scholar at Paderborn University in
Paderborn, Germany in fall 2007.
Hunter will teach about retail systems as part of a lecturing and research
grant through the Fulbright Program. His teaching will focus on strategy,
financial analysis and issues of consumer behavior in a retail environment.
In addition to teaching the retail course, Hunter will conduct research on
German retail markets and consumer empowerment.
The Fulbright Scholar visit to Paderborn will be the culmination of a very
busy year for Hunter. In mid May, he will lead a group of students from
Illinois State s College of Business on the first part of their summer study
abroad trip to England and Belgium. During June, he will teach a summer
course on retail systems at Paderborn University. That teaching assignment,
separate from the Fulbright Program, is a result of an invitation he
received from the marketing faculty at Paderborn. Hunter visited that
institution in May 2006 as part of a faculty exchange and began an academic
collaboration with the department s faculty.
Teaching the summer course in retail systems at Paderborn will be an
excellent warm-up for the Fulbright visit in the fall, said Hunter. It
will allow me to tailor the course content to fit into a German context. The
Fulbright Scholar visit will give me an expanded opportunity to teach about
American retail business practices, while learning a great deal about retail
markets in Germany. That type of cross-cultural business study will help to
enrich my teaching when I return to Illinois State in the spring of 2008.
Hunter is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals traveling
abroad through the Fulbright Scholar Program. The Fulbright Program is
America s flagship international education exchange program and is sponsored
by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
The program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late
Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, with the purpose of building
mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of
the world. The program operates in more than 150 countries.
For more information about the Fulbright Program visit http://exchanges.state.gov
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