The
Winner of Dr. Werner Kubsch Award 2004
Dr. Donald Matthews, Jr.
Director, Int'l Affairs and
Center for Int'l Business Education
Daytona Beach Community College
Daytona Beach, Florida
Don Matthews
has been involved in international education activities since the 1970s
something that he doesn’t like to admit. In fact, he attended one
of the first CCID conferences as a student at the University of Florida
in 1978, in Orlando. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras and has
taught Social Science, History, and Political Science at community colleges
in Florida and South Carolina. He is a native Floridian, something rare
in this state; only one of every three citizens was born here.
He was the
Scholar-in-Residence at the old US Information Agency as a program officer
for the Fulbright Latin American Program and as the Community College
Liaison for the Agency. He was instrumental in initiating the USIA sponsored
Central American Scholarship Program with CCID colleges and in encouraging
community colleges to apply for the then new University Linkage program.
Matthews
has been active with CCID most recently since 1995 when DBCC joined the
group as an affiliate member. Since that time he has been the lead IED
in organizing and coordination CCID conferences in Orlando this year and
in 2001. In addition DBCC has been the lead institution for CCID projects
in Colombia. At DBCC Matthews has been the project director for 2 North
American Mobility Programs in Higher Education, the most recent began
in 2003, the USAID/AACC Workforce Development Program in Mexico, and the
USAID/United Negro College Fund’s Tertiary Education Program in
South Africa. Also Matthews has been the project director for the US State
Department’s Educational Advisors tour program in cooperation with
the other institutions of higher education in the region to expose advisors
from overseas locations to the higher ed. system in the US. Currently
the State Department sponsors only two of these tours each year.
Possibly the
most challenging activity for Matthews will be as the director of the
DBCC initiated project in developing a community college in the Dominican
Republic, the Community University of the Americas (UCLA) in Eastern Santo
Domingo in cooperation with the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development
and the Management Association of Santo Domingo.
CONGRATULATIONS
DON!!!