June 29, 2005

Purdue career services director receives Fulbright grant

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Timothy B. Luzader, director of Purdue University’s Center for Career Opportunities, has been selected to attend a seminar for the U.S.-Germany International Education Administrators Program conducted by the Fulbright Commission in Berlin.

Beginning in October, Luzader will spend three weeks in Germany participating in the German-American Fulbright Commission's annual seminar for U.S. university administrators, said Thomas B. Robinson, vice president for student services at Purdue.

Luzader is one of six career services directors nationwide to be selected to participate in this project. It is the first Fulbright grant awarded to a member of Purdue’s student services area.

The seminar, which begins in Berlin on Oct. 12 and ends in Mainz on Oct. 29, will educate American career services officials about Germany's higher education system and the country's culture. In addition, the seminar will give participants a chance to consult with career centers in Germany.

Luzader, who has been at Purdue since 2000, previously was the career services director at Stony Brook University in New York. Luzader is currently completing his term as president of the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

The Fulbright grant is provided under an executive agreement between the U.S. and German governments with the approval of the boards of the Fulbright Commission in Berlin and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board in Washington, D.C.

Writer: Kim Medaris, (765) 494-6998, kmedaris@purdue.edu

Sources: Timothy B. Luzader, (765) 494-3981, tluzader@purdue.edu

Thomas B. Robinson, (765) 494-5776, trobinson@purdue.edu

Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu

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