Ambassador David Dunford will be the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow from March 18 – March 24, 2007. Ambassador Dunford is an expert on the Arab-Israeli Conflict and Middle East Business Environment. Recently, he worked for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad as Senior Ministerial Liaison to Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For more information regarding events during his visit contact Mary Lou DeRosa at derosam@sacredheart.edu.The Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows program was established in 1973 to encourage the flow of ideas between the academic and non-academic worlds and to help students see the relationship between their education and their future lives. During week-long visits to small liberal arts colleges, Fellows participate in a dialogue with students and faculty in formal and informal venues: from classrooms to coffee shops to career counseling sessions, student dorms and dining halls; with time for answering questions, forming friendships, and exploring ideas in depth.
By their own example, Fellows demonstrate that successful leaders in business, government, non-profit—wherever—command a good understanding of people in our own and in other cultures, ethics, history – an understanding based on the rich knowledge that is the core of the liberal arts education.
Fellows are successful executives, journalists, diplomats, writers, government officials, lawyers, judges, entrepreneurs, ethicists, environmentalists, futurists, political analysts, scientists, and other professionals. Fellows are selected on the basis of personal enthusiasm for the goals of the program, interest in young people, a willingness to share their lives and expertise, and the ability to listen as well as to talk. Fellows do not come to campuses as teachers: rather, as one Fellow put it, they provide "a reality footnote" to the academic experience.
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