Madison Sewell ’16 has been awarded a Fulbright U.S Student Program grant for an English Teaching Assistantship for the 2017-18 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement as well as record of service and demonstrated leadership in their respective fields.
Sewell, a Texarkana, Texas native, graduated in December 2016 with a bachelor’s in health sciences and a minor in Honors Interdisciplinary Studies. As a Fulbright awardee, Sewell is serving as an English Teaching Assistant in the Czech Republic until June 2018.
“I am very excited to serve as a representative of my country and of UCA as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant,” Sewell said. “I hope that I can eventually be the type of educator who challenges students, who helps them find ways to reach their ultimate goals, who is a voice in their heads that tells them they can when other voices may tell them that they cannot, and who is everything that other educators were for me.”
“Being named a Fulbright Finalist is a great honor for Madison Sewell and our University, as well as a testament to our faculty,” said UCA President Houston Davis. “Not only are we providing excellent classroom experiences, but we are helping students find more ways to apply their classroom knowledge and fulfill their passions.”