Economics professor Paul B. Trescott, recently awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to teach in Poland, says the award will benefit SIUC by establishing communication between students and faculty of both countries.

Because of the award, Trescott will teach Money and Banking and Micro Theory courses at the Technical University of Czestochowa, Poland during the spring semester. There he also plans to do research on the monetary conditions in Poland.

Presumably, the SIUC Economics department will benefit from the research and lectures I can give upon my return, Trescott said. More than that, going to Poland will establish contact between the students and faculty on both campuses.

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Trescott said that this is his second Fulbright Scholar Award. A previous award allowed him to teach in China in 1983.

The China experience was very rewarding, Trescott said. I got to know people and experience a part of the world I knew nothing about.

Daniel Primont, chair of the Economics department, said the Fulbright award has aided the international character of SIU.

When Trescott had a Fulbright in 1983, the number of Chinese students applying to SIU programs went up, Primont said. I expect the same upon his return from Poland.

Trescott said the 12-year hiatus since his last award and a desire to compare the conversion of former Communist countries to a free market economy led him to apply for the most recent award.

I did a lot of observing of China’s adaptation to an expanding free market economy, Trescott said. Poland seemed to be an interesting parallel situation that would enable me to compare the two.

Trescott said the Fulbright Scholar Award allows teaching opportunities for American academics all over the world.

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The program is sponsored by the United States government and is named for the late Senator Fulbright of Arkansas, Trescott said. It was started in the 1940’s and sponsors American scholars going abroad, as well as foreigners coming to the United States.