SCHOOL of INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES – David Bachner

David Bachner
Scholar-in-Residence
International Communication

Phone
202-885-6492

Fax
202-885-2494

E-Mail
bachner@american.edu

Location
Watkins, Room G10A

Web site
www.american.edu/sis/ic/index.htm

Biography
David J. Bachner is Scholar-in-Residence in the International Communication program of the School of International Service, where he also serves as Chairman of the Advisory Council for the Intercultural Management Institute. He joined American Universitys faculty in January 2005.

From September 1994 to January 2005, Bachner was Dean of Global Studies and Director of the Sondhi Limthongkul Center for Interdependence at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. He was also the college's Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs from January 2003 to June 2004. In May 2006, Hartwick College's Board of Trustees elected Bachner Dean Emeritus.

Prior to joining Hartwicks administration in 1994, he was Vice President of Youth For Understanding (YFU) International Exchange in Washington, DC, one of the world's oldest international homestay programs for teenagers. During his years at YFU (1982-1994), he also served as founding Director of the International Secretariat, Director of Educational & Program Services, and Director of Asia/Pacific Programs. He is currently Chairman of the world-wide YFU organization's International Advisory Council; Trustee and Secretary of YFU International Educational Services, Inc.; and a Trustee of YFU USA, Inc.

Following his doctoral work in organizational behavior (1971-75) until he joined YFU in 1982, Bachner provided organizational development expertise to private, not-for-profit, and public sector organizations, first as Associate in Organizational Psychology at the Center for Planned Change in St. Louis, Missouri (1975-1977) and then as Senior Scientist at the General Research Corporation in McLean, Virginia (1978-1982).

Bachner spent 1964-65 as an exchange student at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan. After his graduation from Bates College in 1966, he served in Korea until 1968 with the first group of U.S. Peace Corps volunteers to that country. From 1968 to 1971, when he started graduate school, he was a cross-cultural training coordinator, a project director, and later Training Officer at the University of Hawaii's Center for Cross-Cultural Training and Research, which prepared prospective Peace Corps volunteers for service in Asia and the Pacific.

Bachner has taught courses at American University; Case Western Reserve University; the Stanford Institute for Intercultural Communication; the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication in Portland, Oregon; Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul, Korea; and Hartwick College. A Consulting Editor of the International Journal of Intercultural Relations and a Fellow of the International Academy for Intercultural Research, he has published widely in the fields of international education and intercultural relations.

Education
PhD, Case Western Reserve University
BA, Bates College

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