FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                          April 12, 2005

THAI EDUCATORS VISIT NORTHWESTERN

            A group of 12 college educators from Thailand were at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva Tuesday as part of their graduate studies at Oklahoma State University. The group ate lunch in the Student Center, toured campus and was briefed on Interactive Television (ITV) and Northwestern’s administrative structure and programs.

            The visitors are in a doctoral program at OSU that calls for them to come to Oklahoma March through May, a time that is summer vacation in Thailand.  The rest of the year, instructors from OSU will go to Thailand.

            The group was accompanied by Dr. Ken Stern, professor in school administration, and Neal Chitapong, a Thai native who this past week completed his Ph.D. in school administration at Oklahoma State.

            The Thais also will visit the University of Central Oklahoma, Langston University and OSU-Tulsa. Dr. Stern said the tour, which will include homework, is part of a course of study covering governance of institutions. Northwestern was chosen as representative of a smaller state university and also because it serves many students from states other than Oklahoma.

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