Fulbright Fellowship, High Honor For Citadel Standout, Mendham Grad

MENDHAM, N.J. – James McManus, of Mendham, has shone brightly at the Citadel and will now take his talents abroad.

The Citadel Class of 2016 member is headed to Oslo, Norway to teach English after being selected for a Fulbright U.S. Student Award, the school said.

McManus is the regimental academic officer for the South Carolina Corps of Cadets, and a leading education major in the college’s Zucker Family School of Education.

Not only has McManus earned the Fulbright Scholarship, the Honors Program student was recently presented with The Citadel Palmetto Medal, one of the college’s highest honors.

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“Cadet McManus’s performance epitomizes our leadership development model here at The Citadel. He is a young person of integrity, is dedicated to the success of others, and is a leader of his peers,” said Connie Book, Ph.D., provost and dean of the college, in a statement. “We are very proud of his Fulbright achievement and look forward to his future success as an educator.”

McManus created his own site, The Oxford Observer, where he records his ongoing research and a resource for educators and is also the chief executive officer of Global Outreach Initiative for the improvement of education in emerging countries.

“I am grateful to have had the involvement and support of mentors, collaborators, colleagues, friends and family in everything I have attempted or achieved. None of it would have happened had I not had the kind of academic and leadership development that cadets receive at The Citadel,” McManus said in a statement. “My goal to become a teacher is being realized and I am humbled by the fact that I’ll be doing it as a representative of the United States thanks to the Fulbright program.”