The announcement was made by the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
According to a UOG press release, Fee will be providing technical assistance and post-graduate training courses in the education of deaf children at the University of Santo Tomas during the next 12 months.
Fee will also assist in preparing and supporting special education and regular classroom teachers in accepting more than 3,000 poor deaf children, who were recently given free hearing aids.
The University of Santo Tomas is one of the most prestigious universities in the Philippines, having recently celebrated its 400th anniversary, making it the oldest in Asia.
Fee is one of 400 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad this year through the Fulbright Specialists Program. The program, created in 2000 to complement the traditional Fulbright Scholar Program, provides short-term academic opportunities — two to six weeks — to prominent U.S. faculty and professionals to support curricular and faculty development, and institutional planning at post-secondary academic institutions around the world.
The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
