Joshi Appointed to State Education Committee
Dr. Tulasi Joshi has been appointed by the state Department of Education and the Arts
to join the West Virginia Commission on International Education.
Gov. Bob Wise created the commission in May 2003. The commission's purpose is to
report on the status of international education in West Virginia and to make recommendations
for its improvement.
Joshi, Professor of Geography, was presented with the Cyrus R. Vance Award in 2003
for his efforts to further international education. He was one of 20 educators and
education organizations nominated for the award, presented by Kay Goodwin, Cabinet
Secretary of Education and the Arts and Chairman of the W.Va. Commission on International
Education.
Joshi has been a professor at Fairmont State for more than 30 years, covering a variety
of international topics. He is a member of the West Virginia Consortium for Faculty
and Course Development in International Studies, National Geographic Society and the
Association of American Geographers. He was a Mellon Fellow for the National Council
on U.S.-Arab Relations. He has served as a member of the FS International Education
Committee since 1973; for many of those years he was chairman. He was instrumental
in the establishment of the international student scholarship program and International
Week observed on campus every year. In 1989, Joshi, a native of Nepal, helped to establish
the Nepal Scholarship Program at Fairmont State.
