Karen Boroff, a professor of management and dean emerita of the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Madrid, Spain, for the 2025 spring semester from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Boroff, who has worked at Seton Hall for more than 35 years, will bring her expertise in management, human resources, labor relations and negotiations for her Fulbright project, “Leadership, Creativity, Collaborations: Transforming Concepts into Practice,” at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, in Madrid, Spain.
UPM is a partner school with the Management Center Innsbruck in Austria, where Boroff served as a visiting professor and Seton Hall has a thriving relationship.
The project will focus on equipping leaders with competencies in change management, as all higher education institutions seek to navigate the ever-changing landscape of academe.
Boroff has been in discussions with her faculty collaborator and mentor Isabel Ortiz-Marcos, a mechanical engineer who holds a doctoral degree in industrial engineering from UPM, where she is also an associate professor of engineering projects and project management. Ortiz also is a certified project manager professional by the Project Management Institute since 2006.
“Dr. Boroff’s learning modules on leadership will widen our resources for students who want to improve their own ability to lead teams,” Ortiz said. “In addition, I look forward to collaborating with her on preparing a case study in Spanish and English to submit to a case research conference in June and for eventual publication. More broadly, UPM hopes to find other ways for collaborations between our institution and Seton Hall University.”
This spring break, one such collaboration will give Seton Hall students an opportunity to participate in an international trip.
“Students can become a Madrileño/a for a week at our host university, one of the finest in Spain,” Boroff said.
She added that the two institutions aspire to sign a collaborative agreement to enhance the educational experiences of the students they serve, as well as to foster faculty and administrator exchanges. Similar to Management’s MCI agreement in Destination and Event Management, they are exploring an articulation agreement between the two institutions and potential blended exchanges for academic certificates in fashion design, a blended engineering and entrepreneurship certificate as well as other potential offerings.
