Exhilarating adventure for an American professor to go to a "worst case" former communist country to live for almost a year to teach and research. Upon learning the problems Romania faced, to advise and consult with the people and to devise ways to help them through the transition, while enjoying the country and its people.
I am a Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, semi-active in retirement by teaching short courses twice a year at the Romanian-American University in Bucharest and bringing American students to Romania in a Study Abroad program each summer since 2004. In 1991, I first came to Romania as a Fulbright Scholar and decided to try to help the country with an intern program that started in 1993. I was a Visiting Professor to the Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu, Romania in 1996, Visiting Professor in the University of Maryland Program teaching in Germany, Iceland, and Hungary in 1998, and Visiting Professor to the American University in bulgaria in 2000.
I wrote "Romania Opening all of the Doors" over a 12 year span while I was a Managment Professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Most of the book relates to the first 12 months my wife and I were in Romania: 1991-92, The later chapters describe subsequent visits in 1992-2002, such as my teaching at the Black Sea University in the summers of 1993, 94, & 95, my recruitment of Romanian management interns in 1993, 94, & 95, the interns experiences in America in 1994, 95, & 96, our intern reunions in 1997, 2000, & 2002, and political changes in Romania during the 12 years. I have successfully used this book as an introduction to Romania for Study Abroad students who were going to Romania. The students have universally said the book was very helpful to them.
