Jim Fatzinger (DBA ’20) | November 2024

Jim Fatzinger (DBA ’20) has been honored with the Fulbright Association Excellence in Advocacy Award. The award recognizes his support of the Fulbright mission through his role as Fulbright Specialist with the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, in which he consults other countries, and as President of the Kentucky Chapter of the Fulbright Association.

Fatzinger completed a doctorate at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of Education before joining the University of Florida Warrington College of Business’s Doctor of Business Administration program. He has also completed post-graduate work at Harvard and Oxford Universities and is an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow. Currently, his research focuses on economic development and entrepreneurship in the wake of natural disasters, including hurricanes, and he teaches management as an adjunct faculty member in Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering.

Read Fatzinger’s latest published work, “Lessons from Founding a College: A Personal Perspective,” in the Dean and Provost, in which he shares his experience founding the first, four-year public institution of the 21st Century, Georgia Gwinnett College, as the institution’s Charter Senior Associate Provost.