U.S. Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor, and U.S. Representative Vic Snyder, announced that $70,000 in grant funding has been issued to UCA through the Department of Education’s Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program.
The Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad program provides grants to support overseas projects for teachers, students, and faculty. This program holds an annual competition, and projects must focus on the humanities, social sciences, or languages.
The UCA project will be led by Dr. Brooks Green and will work to expand understanding of Russian culture and ecology through service learning. The 4-6 week program enables 13 geography educators to travel to south-central Siberia to observe, study, and learn about the diverse culture and history of this unique area of Russia.”With this grant, Arkansas educators will be able to experience Russian culture first-hand, instead of simply reading about it in a book or viewing it on film. Not only will these teachers enhance their own learning, they will also be able to share their experiences with students and other educators across the state. UCA has been one of Arkansas’s leading institutions of higher learning, and I
