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SCHOLARSHIPS PROVIDE MONEY FOR TRAVEL ABROAD Through the generosity of Washington state, individual donors and donor organizations, the UW offers students funding for studyabroad opportunities from a variety of sources. Here is just a sample of the scholarships and grant awards currently available: The Del Rio Global Citizen Scholarship provides funds to students for foreign study and research. The scholarships provide financial support to students in the UW’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) so that they can study abroad. The founder of the fund, Nelson Del Rio, ’84, was an EOP student at UW who graduated in the top 10 of his class, went on to study law at Harvard and became a successful businessman and philanthropist. “A lot of people think it’s reading and writing that will change young peoples’ futures but I think it’s vision and hope that changes and broadens a life and travel will do that,” Del Rio says. He says he
takes that philosophy “right to my home.” His son, Nelson Del Rio Jr., is the youngest person ever to travel via dog sled to visit the North Pole, according to Del Rio. In 2008, Katherine E. McDermott established the Roseanna Wabel McDermott Endowed Fund for Study Abroad in honor of her grandmother. McDermott, who is presently teaching in Mongolia, says her grandmother believed strongly in the power of education to transform peoples' lives. The Bonderman Travel Fellowship is available to graduate students (including those in the Law and Business Schools as well as other graduate and professional programs); undergraduate students in the University Honors Program (Interdisciplinary, Departmental or College Honors); and students in UW Tacoma’s Global Honors Program. Bonderman Fellowships give students an opportunity to engage
in independent exploration and travel abroad. Each Bonderman Fellow receives a $20,000 award for travel. UW undergraduate students who are Husky Promise- and Pell Grant-eligible and also Washington residents may apply for the GO! (Global Opportunities) Scholarship, funded by the Washington state Legislature. This competitive scholarship helps academically promising undergraduate students with significant financial need gain access to international learning opportunities. Each year, more students are funded for study-abroad opportunities through the GO! Scholarship than through any other source. The Fritz Undergraduate Scholarship is funded by the Chester Fritz Endowment. This academically competitive scholarship provides funding to students majoring in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
SCHOOL: A LEADER IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION For more information or to donate money to support travel opportunities, call the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity at 206-685-0518 or select the OMA&D Foreign Student Activities Fund online at www.uwfoundation.org/diversity.
FOCUS ON MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION REAPS SUCCESS Anyone interested in multicultural education in the U.S. is familiar with the name of Banks. James A. Banks and Cherry A. McGee Banks are UW education professors who wrote a seminal work in the field of education—the Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education, the first book of its kind ever published. James Banks is the Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the UW, while Cherry Banks is a professor of education at UW Bothell and a faculty associate of the center. At a time when evidence-based practices are driving what happens in the classroom, the Banks’ contribution to the field of education is important for every public-school educator, especially as society becomes more diverse. Multicultural education aims to create equal educational opportunities for all students by changing the school environ-
ment so it will reflect cultures and groups within a society. Cherry Banks is chairperson of the Diversity Council at UW Bothell, where seven areas in the campus’ 21st Campus Initiative have been identified—and increasing diversity is one of them. “UW Bothell is one of the most diverse campuses in our state. We have 36 percent students of color now. We are very proud of that and we’d like it to become even more diverse,” Banks says. The campus’ Education program added a number of courses focusing on multicultural education. The Diversity Council plans to implement a diversity minor that will be available to all students beginning this fall. Faculty from diverse backgrounds will join students in exploring the historical and theoretical aspects of diversity. In addition, there will be an experiential course involving
work in the community in public schools, health or social-services sites. Moreover, UW Bothell is working with Rainier Beach, Cleveland, Franklin, Garfield, Roosevelt, Chief Sealth, Ingraham, West Seattle, and Mariner and Everett high schools as part of its Dream Project to foster applications for admissions from students from underrepresented communities. The program conducts workshops on essay writing and the college-application process, and holds college awareness days. In these schools, applications to the UW Bothell have risen a whopping 235 percent. Cherry Banks pointed out “that at the Bothell Campus, we define diversity broadly to not only include students of color, but also veterans, students from economically diverse backgrounds and students who are the first in their family to go to college.”— Julie Garner Cherry Banks
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Jackson School Director Resat ¸ Kasaba.
For more than 100 years, the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies (JSIS) has served as a gateway for undergraduate and graduate students to learn about the world beyond Seattle. According to JSIS Director Resat ¸ Kasaba, our world is once again being pulled in opposite directions. On the one hand, distant parts of the globe are being linked to each other through trade, investment, migration, and communication on a level that the world has never witnessed before. At the same time, relations among people are becoming defined with growing suspicion and outright hostility to an alarming degree. A Jackson School education encourages students to build an indepth and historically informed understanding of world areas, civilizations, and global forces and trends, and to engage others through study abroad, foreign language learning, and rigorous academic and intellectual pursuits. Jackson School students, faculty, and staff take this commitment to international education seriously. Funding, in the form of various scholarships, such as the Leslieanne Shedd Memorial Fund and the Dorothy Fosdick Memorial Intern-
ship Fund, allow students to pursue diverse internship opportunities. For example, Semir Hasedzic, ’11, is a Shedd Scholar who worked with an NGO in Rwanda this past summer in an internship related to human rights. Another Shedd Scholar, Nathaniel Thomas, ’11, held a summer internship with the USAID Africa Bureau. Gai-Hoai Nguyen, ’12, interned in Oaxaca, Mexico, with PROSA, a local nonprofit medical clinic, with funds from the Fosdick scholarship. Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS) enable students to pursue foreign language and area studies training either at UW or at other institutions. Seventy-four students from more than 15 departments and schools across UW received summer FLAS fellowships while 64 academic-year FLAS fellows are studying languages as diverse as Arabic, Persian, Chinese, Russian, Turkish, Salish, Urdu, Thai, Hindi, French, Khmer, Latvian, Swahili, and Swedish during the 2011-12 academic year. To learn more about the 13 academic programs and 14 centers affiliated with the school, including the eight National Resource Centers and FLAS Fellowships funded by the Department of Education through the Title VI Program, go to http://jsis.washington.edu/ 9
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