Parkison to Monitor Ukraine Elections
September 13, 2007
Kathy Parkison, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, has been selected by the U.S. Department of State to help monitor the September 30, 2007 elections in the Ukraine. She is one of 55 U.S. citizens who will join a world-wide team of more than 600 observers. Working in cooperation with numerous international organizations, the observers help maintain the fairness and validity of elections by serving as monitors at the polling locations, counting and tabulating the results, and reporting detailed findings.
Parkison was selected due to her international experience in Eastern Europe. She spent fall of 2005 as a Fulbright Scholar in the Republic of Georgia where she taught at the university level and helped develop national economics curricula. She sees this as a wonderful opportunity and looks forward to sharing the experience in the classroom. “I have already spoken to the American Democracy Project committee, and they believe it would be an interesting compare and contrast presentation with American politics,” she stated, “I plan to offer a presentation later this school year.”
