Bonifacio Gabales Jr. (Philippines)
Bonifacio Gabales Jr. is a visiting Fulbright Scholar for six months from the University of Southeastern Philippines in Davao City, Philippines. He received his bachelors of science in industrial education; his masters of science in educational measurement and evaluation; and is now a Ph.D. candidate for development research and administration.
Bonifacio's dissertation title is: "Preschool Learning and Later Academic Performance: A Meta-Analytic Review”. His advisor is Dr. Shawn Fitzgerald.
Keltuma Guerch (Morocco)
Keltouma Guerch is a Moroccan secondary educator returning to the Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education at Kent State University to complete her dissertation research.
A former International Leaders in Education visiting scholar, Keltouma is now funded by the Fulbright Commission for her research with literature composed by women in Northern Africa.
Dr. Yong Chu Kim (South Korea)
Dr. Kim is a visiting scholar at the Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education at Kent State University. He is a professor at Gyeongsang National University in Jinju, South Korea.
Dr. Kim received a Doctorate Degree in Higher Education Administration at Kent State University in 1988. He has been teaching at the College of Education at Gyeongsang National University since 1989.
Dr. Kim's research interests include teacher education in South Korea, organizational behavior in school setting and Korean culture.
Dr. Hyunmi Heu (South Korea)
Dr. Hyunmi Heu is a South Korean visiting scholar at Kent State's School of Exercise, Leisure and Sport. She holds a Master's and a doctorate degree in Sport Sociology from Awha Women's College in South Korea.
Back in South Korea, Dr. Heu worked as an associate professor of Leisure Sport at Kyungin Women's College. Her research interests include women's sports, sexual harassment and abuse in sports, sport management, service in sport facilities, and community sport clubs.