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SENIOR AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS FULBRIGHT TO CHINA |
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April 24, 2009
GROVE CITY, Pa. – David Frick, a senior accounting major at Grove City College, is the recipient of a Fulbright Full Grant to China for academic year 2009-2010. The Full Grant is the highest Fulbright given.
Frick, a native of Indiana, Pa., and a son of D. Chad ’83 and Jill (Sitterley ’84) Frick, will be affiliated with research economists at Zhejiang Normal University, located in the city of Jinhua in the Zhejiang province. For an 11-month period beginning in September, Frick will have an opportunity to examine the Chinese culture through analysis of accounting practices in small businesses.
Winners of Full Grants must develop their own research proposal and find an institution with which to affiliate overseas in a country of their choice. The competition is rigorous and involves four stages: an interview and evaluation by a specially appointed faculty committee at the candidate’s undergraduate institution, consideration of the candidate’s application and faculty committee report by the National Screening Committee at the U.S. State Department’s Institute for International Education, consideration by the host country agency in charge of Fulbright grantees and final selection by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Grantees receive a stipend, tuition and travel funds for their nine- to 12-month grant period.
In addition to accounting, Frick studied Chinese language at Grove City. He has maintained an outstanding academic record, while serving as a member of the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity, Students in Free Enterprise and the Student-Faculty Academic Review Committee. He interned for the Pittsburgh accounting firm Grossman, Yanak and Ford LLP, and will pursue a Master of Business Administration at Duquesne University upon returning from China.
The Fulbright program was founded in 1946 by Congress and named after Senator J. William Fulbright, who was a strong proponent of the importance of international exchange to an effective American foreign policy. The vision of the fellowship program is to advance mutual understanding and goodwill between the U.S. and other countries. Each year, about 1,500 awards are granted in the U.S. Student Program. The awards include Full Grants, Binational Business Grants and English Teaching Assistantships (ETA).
Frick’s grant is Grove City’s fifth Fulbright award since 2000 and its second Full Grant. Past winners include David Jetter ’00 (Binational Business Grant, Mexico 2000), Nicole Rudolph ’02 (ETA, Korea 2002), Jonathan Bond ’04 (Full Grant, United Kingdom 2004) and Mariah Perrin ’05 (ETA, Korea 2005).
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