The Czech Republic Veis is from the Czech Republic, a central European nation located southeast of Germany, which is slightly smaller than South Carolina. Forty-two years of communist rule ended with the election in 1989 of playwright Vaclav Havel as president of Czechoslovakia in the aftermath of sweeping but peaceful political change, dubbed the Velvet Revolution. A strong Slovak nationalist movement emerged by 1991, seeking an independent and sovereign state. A 1992 general election failed to reconcile Czech and Slovak elements within a federation and agreement was reached to separate. German Marshall Fund German Marshall Fund Fellows come from England, France, Ireland, Scandinavia, Portugal, Holland, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Germany.
Fellows represent business, journalism, public service, and other professions.
They are placed on small liberal-arts campuses for a week of intensive dialogue with students and faculty. Fellows are slated for formal presentations in classrooms, on panels, or public platforms. They also have informal encounters with students, faculty, and others at meals, in student centers, clubs, residence halls, conferences and social functions. Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows For two decades, the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows program has brought about closer relations between the academic and non-academic worlds, between campus and community, between academic theory and practical reality. More than 200 campuses have participated in the program since 1973.