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Faculty team to hone communication skills of foreign service officers

By this time next week, six BGSU faculty members will be in Croatia, helping train U.S. foreign service officers from a number of countries in the region to be better communicators. They will be the first faculty members from a U.S. university to take part in the Academic Collaborative Initiative for Mission Public Information Officers, created by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

The team, led by Catherine Cassara, journalism, will be in Croatia from May 1-15. They were recruited by BGSU alumnus Brock Bierman, who works in the USAID Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, where he is chief of staff to assistant administrator Kent Hill. In return for their participation, the bureau is paying for their travel and living expenses while in Zagreb and Opatija.

The six faculty have developed and will pilot the ambitious program, which was conceived by Bierman in response to requests for assistance from foreign service officers themselves. Teaching the approximately 25 participants will be Cassara, Nancy Brendlinger and Dennis Hale, all from journalism; Chuck Hoy, telecommunications, and John Warren and Laura Lengel, both interpersonal communication.

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