{{for|the film producer|Alan Schechter (film producer)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{BLP primary sources|date=May 2008}} '''Alan Schechter''' (born 1936) is a political scientist. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-10-10|title=Alan H. Schechter|url=http://www.wellesley.edu/politicalscience/faculty/schechter|website=Wellesley College}}</ref>
He was educated at Amherst College, where he received his AB, and at Columbia University, where he earned his PhD.
Schechter was Hillary Rodham's advisor during her years at Wellesley College and supervised her senior thesis;<ref>{{cite web|first1=Bill Dedman Investigative reporter|last1=msnbc.com|access-date=2019-10-10|title=How the Clintons wrapped up Hillary's thesis|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna17388394|date=7 September 2007|website=msnbc.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Aaron|last1=Blake|first2=Frances Stead|last2=Sellers|accessdate=2019-10-10|title=Hillary Clinton, Saul Alinsky and Lucifer, explained|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/20/hillary-clinton-saul-alinsky-and-lucifer-explained/|newspaper=Washington Post|date=20 July 2016|issn=0190-8286|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref> Susan Estrich's book ''The Case for Hillary Clinton'' mentions her experience also writing an honors thesis for Schechter (at a different time). He remains involved with the college, running the Wellesley in Washington internship program,<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-10-10|title=Wellesley in Washington Summer Internship Program|url=http://www.wellesley.edu/politicalscience/washington|website=Wellesley College}}</ref> in which Rodham participated as a student and which continues to send approximately twenty women to Washington for internships each summer.
Schechter is the former Chairman,<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-10-10|title=President Clinton Names Alan Schechter to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (11/21/00)|url=https://clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov/textonly/library/hot_releases/November_21_2000_1.html|website=clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov}}</ref> Vice-Chairman,<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-10-10|title=WELLESLEY COLLEGE PROFESSOR ALAN H. SCHECHTER ELECTED VICE CHAIR OF FULBRIGHT FOREIGN SCHOLARSHIP BOARD|url=http://web.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/PAhomepage/schechter.html|website=web.wellesley.edu}}</ref> and member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (Fulbright Program), a Presidential appointment.
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080106071726/http://www.wellesley.edu/Polisci/faculty_staff.html#AlanSchechter Wellesley faculty bio]
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