LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ -- Dr. Belmont F. Haydel, Jr., professor of business policy and environment emeritus at Rider University, is serving as a visiting professor and consultant at Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador.

Dr. Haydel (left) arrived in early May and will conclude his assignment in mid-July. He is teaching two seminars in Spanish -- New Trends in Administration, and Design and Implementation of Strategy. He will also consult with the university on a new Master of Business Administration program which has an international business focus.

An individual with considerable international background, Dr. Haydel twice has been awarded Fulbright grants to teach in foreign countries -- in Uruguay (1989) and in Jordan (1992). He also has presented seminars on strategic planning and international business at the Bank of Foreign Trade in Mexico City, at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and in Paraguay.

Between 1963 and 1968, he was an economic and commercial officer with the ranks of attaché and vice-consul in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires. He was a member of the support staff of the U.S. Mission at the Inter-American Meeting of Chiefs of State in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

Dr. Haydel, who served on the Rider business faculty for 15 years, retired in June 1994. Before coming to Rider in 1979, he served as executive director of the Inter-American Center at Loyola University in New Orleans. At Rider, he conceptualized the business college's international business programs, internships, and curricular design. He holds a Ph.D. in management and organizational theory from North Texas State University.

Rider University is an independent, coeducational, nonsectarian institution with a 353-acre main campus in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and a 23-acre campus in Princeton, New Jersey. The University offers 58 undergraduate programs and 17 graduate programs in the Colleges of Business Administration; Liberal Arts, Education, and Sciences; Continuing Studies; and Westminster Choir College. Ninety-three percent of the faculty hold doctoral or other appropriate advanced degrees. U.S. News and World Report has again ranked Rider in the top tier of northern universities based on the quality of its programs.