ILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE WELCOMES FULBRIGHT FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING ASSISTANT FROM EGYPT
Illinois Central College recently welcomed
Nahed Shata of Egypt for the 2016-17 academic year to teach Arabic and take
courses at the College as part of a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching
Assistant (FLTLA) Program grant.
While in the United States, Shata
will share her language and culture in the local community to inspire students
and residents to travel and study overseas to better engage with businesses,
governments and organizations abroad. She is one of nearly 400 young educators
from 50 countries who will travel to the U.S. in the 2016-17 academic year
through the Fulbright FLTA program to help internationalize colleges and
universities and prepare the 21st Century workforce for a globalized
world. The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board selects grant
recipients on the basis of academic and professional achievement, as well as
demonstrated leadership potential.
Shata earned a bachelor degree in
education from Mansoura University in Egypt and a professional diploma in
translation from English to Arabic and a professional educator diploma in
integrated technology for classroom teachers from the American University in
Cairo. She has taught for more than 13 years and also occasionally works as a
part-time translator.
She joins the 14 Fulbright awardees
who have come to ICC since 2007.
According to the Institute of
International Education, the Fulbright Program was established in 1946 and has
given approximately 360,000 students, scholars, teachers, artists and
scientists the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research. More than
4,000 Fulbright awardees have been designated FLTAs since 2001.
For
more information on ICC’s International Education Programs, contact Dr. Barbara
Burton, director of International Education, at (309) 694-8817 or Barbara.burton@icc.edu, or Dr. Rita
Ali, vice president of diversity, international and adult education, at (309)
694-5561 or rali@icc.edu.
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