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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa. – A knowledgeable investment, brokerage, mergers and acquisitions specialist and academician, Lincoln University professor Oswald H. Richards, Ph.D., has been selected for a Fulbright Specialist grant in Business Administration at Polytechnic of Namibia (PON), Southwest Africa, in late spring 2012.
To fulfill this academic exchange program, Dr. Richards will present lectures and deliver instruction at the graduate and undergraduate levels, lead seminars, consult with administrators and instructors on faculty development, consult with PON’s external constituencies to help build strategic alliances with various stakeholders in the Namibian economy and enterprises, develop and/or assess academic curricula (including Ph.D.) and conduct teacher training programs at the university level.
Dr. Richards will be lecturing in Namibia for six weeks. He delivered seminars and academic instruction to Lincoln University students while at PON during their Summer School Program in June 2010. During that time, PON students pursuing an Honors Degree in Entrepreneurship attended his seminars and classroom instruction, which yielded impressive results that summer. The executive and academic management of PON then submitted a request to the U.S. Embassy/State Department in Namibia for Dr. Richards to visit as a Fulbright Specialist in the field of Business. PON stated that the university “is convinced that Dr. Richards is uniquely qualified to transfer these competencies, having worked in the financial services and governmental sectors and as a senior executive and consultant with broad-based leadership and managerial responsibilities.”
Dr. Richards is Chairman and Professor in the Center of Excellence in Business and Entrepreneurial Studies. He is also Director of the Masters of Science in Administration program at the University’s Graduate Center in Philadelphia. Prior to his transition into academia in 1999, Dr. Richards was employed as a banking and financial services executive at PNC Bank, Riggs National Bank, Bank of America, and the money management/investment banking firm, Legg Mason Wood Walker.
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Internationally recognized for preparing learners and producing world-class leaders in their fields, Lincoln has created five academic Centers of Excellence-programs of distinction. They are: Business and Entrepreneurial Studies, Lincoln/Barnes Visual Arts, Mass Communications, Grand Research Educational Awareness, Training (GREAT) for Minority Health, Teacher Education and Urban Pedagogy.