Huberty Receives Fulbright Grant to Egypt

Carl J Huberty, professor emeritus of educational psychology in UGA’s College of Education, has received a Fulbright Senior Specialists grant to present his work to education students and faculty at Suez Canal University and several other universities in Cairo, Egypt.

Huberty expects to stay abroad for two weeks in Fall 2004.  He will work closely with Fawzy Ezzat Ali, head of the educational psychology department at Suez Canal University. He will conduct presentations on "reporting empirical results of studies in the behavioral and social sciences” and “the conduct of empirical research that involves multiple response variables.”  Huberty will provide the Egyptian researchers with new information about reporting and conducting research.

Edward Simpson of the Institute of Higher Education and Maria Gimenez of the School of Law also received grants from the Fulbright Scholars Program, according to the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) located in Washington, D.C.

Simpson, a Distinguished Public Service Fellow, also received a Fulbright Senior Specialists grants, while Gimenez received a grant for three months of instruction and research.

CIES granted Simpson two awards in education.  He will work with the faculty of the National Institute for Higher Education in South Africa and also the University of Zagreb in Croatia.

In South Africa he will contribute to the process of designing an academic operational model for the newly established National Institute for Higher Education in the Northern Cape. The institute is expected to develop partnerships with existing institutions, reach agreement with them and jointly offer programs for these partner institutions on its campus. Simpson will provide a model that will allow this to happen efficiently and cost effectively.

Two weeks after his return, Simpson will travel to Croatia to the University of Zagreb (UZ) to prepare professional education seminars dealing with strategic planning, change and organizational culture. He will work to enhance institutional effectiveness and design a university institute of higher education capable of collecting data for the study and improvement of Croatian higher education and professional improvement of administrators and faculty.

Gimenez received a grant under the traditional Fulbright Scholar Program in Law at the University of El Salvador in Argentina where she will work with other faculty on the development of justice reform and judicial training as part of the Americas’ economic integration process. She will conduct workshops and research on the development of continuing judicial administration training standards.

Huberty joined the College of Education faculty in 1969, teaching courses at the graduate level like statistical methods, nonparametric methods and multivariate methods.

During the 33 years he spent at UGA, Huberty contributed significantly to the literature on statistics including an authored book, two edited books, 13 book chapters and 58 journal articles.  He has also presented 93 papers and led 40 workshops on discriminant analysis, multivariate methods, program evaluation and test construction at conferences across the nation and around the world.

Huberty also served as head of the educational psychology department from 1992-99.  Although he retired in August 2002, Huberty still teaches one course each semester. He received his PhD in statistical methods from the University of Iowa.

The Fulbright Senior Specialists Program provides leading U.S. academics with two- to six-week grants to support curricular and faculty development as well as institutional planning at academic institutions in 140 countries around the world.The Fulbright Scholar Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and managed by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.

Monday, April 5, 2004

WRITER: Kristen Heflin, 706/583-0811, heflin@uga.edu
CONTACT: Carl J. Huberty, 706/542-4256, chuberty@coe.uga.edu