A Park University associate professor of criminal justice has been awarded a Fulbright to teach the fall 2008 semester in Ukraine.
Carol Getty, Ph.D., will teach at the National University of Internal Affairs (KhNUIA) in Kharkiv. Getty said she also might develop curriculum and programs, as well as do some consulting while in Kharkiv, the second-largest city in Ukraine.
Dr. Carol Getty
The Eastern European country borders Russia to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south. Ukraine became independent after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
"I wanted to see a country in transition," she said of her interest in Ukraine. "This is a country that doesn't actually teach criminal justice, a country that doesn’t have a democratic law system."
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and established in 1946, the Fulbright Program provides funding for students, scholars and professionals to undertake graduate study, advanced research, university teaching and teaching in elementary and secondary schools. The Fulbright Program aims to increase mutual understanding between the peoples of the U.S. and other countries, through the exchange of persons, knowledge and skills.
Before joining Park in 1997, Getty spent 13 years as regional commissioner of the north central region of the U.S. Parole Commission, appointed first by President Ronald Reagan then President George H.W. Bush. For about 1½ years during that period, she chaired the U.S. Parole Commission in Washington D.C., becoming the first (and so far only) woman to chair the commission in its 80 years. Previously, Getty was board member and vice chairman of the Arizona Board of Pardons and Paroles for five years. (The position was a gubernatorial appointment.)
Getty said she found out in April that she would be awarded the Fulbright.
"I'm excited about winning it," she said. "I know from teaching in Taiwan and China that it's an incredible and fulfilling experience to teach in another country. I think you get more out of it than you give."
Steven Youngblood, associate professor of communication arts at Park University, taught last spring in Azerbajan on his second Fulbright (his first was teaching in Moldova in 2001). Park's other Fulbright scholars were Pete Soule, Ph.D., professor of economics (2002) and Nicolas Koudou, Ph.D., professor of business administration (2003).
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