The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has awarded Purchase, New York-based Manhattanville College alumnus Michael Caslin III ”™80, founder and president of the Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship (GCSEN) in Kingston, a fellowship to be a visiting Fulbright professor in Ireland. It is one of the first Fulbright awards offered in recognition for a distinguished career in thought leadership and social venture activation related to social entrepreneurship.
As a Fulbright Fellow, Caslin was invited to the Letterkenny School of Technology”™s School of Business in Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland, where he will lecture on innovation and leadership in social entrepreneurship, research and publication of case studies of social ventures, revitalizing social entrepreneurship curricula and contributing to the development of the Regional Social Entrepreneurship Centre for County Donegal.
“I am humbled, grateful and inspired by the opportunity provided by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to return to Ireland and give back to the land of my ancestors,” Caslin said.
For his Fulbright lectures and research in Ireland, Caslin said that he will build upon GCSEN”™s “4P” global initiative”” People, Profit, Planet and Place.
Caslin currently lectures at SUNY New Paltz School of Business and Saint Peter”™s University Business School in New Jersey.
As co-founder and CEO for 20 years of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Caslin was instrumental in propelling that organization”™s engagement of over 1.8 million students and more than 4,000 teachers, while raising over $100 million in funding.
