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October 2007 Development Report
By Jeannette Belliveau During her academic career, Dorothy A. Moore, emerita faculty member of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development and Elliott School of International Affairs, found time to visit more than 100 countries and all seven continents. Growing up in a diverse neighborhood in Northwest Washington and attending an international school inspired Moore’s curiosity about faraway places at a young age. Over the decades, her international perspective spurred Moore to help found the International Development Studies Program in the Elliott School. She also helped create two initiatives in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development: a master’s degree program in international education and a visiting scholars program. Her commitment to GW continues with a decision she and her husband made to endow the Dorothy and Charles Moore Fellowship in International Development Studies in the Elliott School. “I had wonderful students from all over the world,” Moore says. “The program has emphasized building bridges across cultures. I think the Elliott School can further promote cross-cultural understanding and provide opportunities for those students in international development work.” Moore supports these programs because they foster students’ understanding of current development issues and theories, as well as the processes involved in formulating policy and implementing development projects and the important role of international education. In addition to providing financial support, the fellowship recognizes student achievement and potential for future leadership. The fellowship is awarded based on scholarship, and each fellow may receive a stipend or tuition allowance. In 1980, Moore started the International Education Program, a master’s degree program that prepares students for international education careers in the United States or abroad. In 2002, she established her first endowment, a graduate scholarship for international education. The income from this fund awards merit-based scholarships to Graduate School of Education and Human Development students pursuing degrees in international education. Moore finds her work guiding students from around the globe in the International Education and International Development programs extremely fulfilling. Many return to guide their home countries’ policies, to work in higher education, or to contribute to international education in other ways. Moore still works as a consultant, directing advanced studies for visiting scholars, including professors and mid-career educators, limited to 12 each year. Moore attended the University of Maryland as an undergraduate and completed her master’s and doctoral degrees at American University. She arrived at GW in 1968 after teaching for 10 years in the United States and Japan. “I’ve spent half of my life at GW,” she notes. Japan ranks high on her list of places where she would like to return. Moore and her husband, Charles, lived there as newlyweds. Living in Tokyo while teaching Japanese students and at the Department of Defense School furthered Moore’s interest in cross-cultural communication and international education. Many of Moore’s former students keep in touch with her. “I remember one grad student from Thailand,” Moore says. “She had just gone home with her new doctorate and told me, ‘You should see my office, it’s bigger than yours. I have a private secretary and a window overlooking the beach in Phuket. But the traffic is worse than Tysons Corner; it’s worse than Washington!” To learn more about ways to give to GW, visit the Division of Development and Alumni Relations Web site at www.develop.gwu.edu.
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