Dr. James W. Adams, Instructor at UCLA Extension, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists Project in Namibia at the High Court of Namibia during Winter/Spring 2015, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Dr. James W. Adams, Instructor at UCLA Extension, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists Project in Namibia at the High Court of Namibia during Winter/Spring 2015. (Photo: Business Wire)
Dr. Adams will conduct training programs in negotiation, mediation and alternative dispute resolution, as part of a wholesale reform of the system of administration of justice ordered by the High Court of Namibia to promote greater access to justice.
Dr. Adams is one of over 400 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad this year through the Fulbright Specialists Program. The Fulbright Specialists Program, created in 2000 to complement the traditional Fulbright Scholar Program, provides short-term academic opportunities (ranging from two to six weeks) to prominent U.S. faculty and professionals to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at post secondary, academic institutions around the world.
The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over its 60 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have taught, studied or conducted research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the United States. Over 285,000 emerging leaders in their professional fields have received Fulbright awards, including individuals who later became heads of government, Nobel Prize winners, and leaders in education, business, journalism, the arts and other fields.
Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement. Among thousands of prominent Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist; Alan Leshner, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; and Craig Barrett, Chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation. Distinguished Fulbright Specialist participants include Mahmoud Ayoub, Professor of Religion at Temple University, Heidi Hartmann, President and CEO, Institute for Women's Policy Research, Percy R. Luney, Jr., Dean and Professor, College of Law, Florida A&M University and Emily Vargas-Barone, Founder and Executive Director of the RISE Institute.
Dr. James W. Adams has taught employment law and human resources development at UCLA Extension since 2000. He received his B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin, and earned his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center. Dr. Adams has written or edited more than 50 legal reference volumes on various state and federal issues. He studied poetry at Oxford University, and his first book of poems, Noble Savage, was nominated for a 2007 Pulitzer Prize.
UCLA Extension is the continuing education division of the University of California (UCLA). We offer courses evenings and weekends in Westwood and Downtown LA, plus online classes available around the globe. Courses range from business arts, engineering, and IT to entertainment studies, public policy, public health, the humanities and more.
For further information about the Fulbright Specialists Program, please contact FULSPEC@cies.iie.org or consult www.cies.org.
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