{"id":4467,"date":"2019-03-04T14:10:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T12:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/spu\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2019-07-31T20:19:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T18:19:48","slug":"first-fulbright-scholars-at-spu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/first-fulbright-scholars-at-spu\/","title":{"rendered":"First Fulbright scholars at SPU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The two American women cycling up the hill daily (on SPU bikes) from Belgravia to SPU are our first Fulbright<\/a> Scholars.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adeola Ajirotutu is from New York City.  She has an undergraduate degree, in Religious and Italian Studies, from the University of Pittsburgh; and obtained her Masters in International Human Rights from the University of Denver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria Mulrooney is from Florida and obtained her undergraduate degree, in English Language Arts Education, from the University of Central Florida.  She then went on to the University of Mississippi where she studied towards her Masters in Higher Education and Student Personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developing an Academic Literacy Framework for the University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They arrived at SPU at the end of January this year to begin their nine-month placement in the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Programme Development under the mentorship of Dr Nhlanhla Mpofu<\/a>.  They are assisting in developing an Academic Literacy Framework for the University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fulbright Program is an educational exchange\nprogramme sponsored by the US government and designed to increase mutual\nunderstanding between the people of the United States and the people of other\ncountries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adeola and Maria are in Kimberley as part of the\nFulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) Program, an element of the Fulbright\nUS Student Program.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) Program<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It provides recent US graduates or graduate students opportunities to engage in a cultural exchange experience as English Teaching Assistants in the host country.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fulbright ETAs have strong leadership skills, have\nreached high levels of academic achievement, are dedicated to community\nservice, and are enthusiastic about adapting to new environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both curious about <\/strong>similiarities<\/strong><\/g> between SA & US<\/strong>A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both women chose to come to South Africa because they were curious about the cultural and political similarities between South Africa and the United States of America.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had expected to be placed in secondary\nschools as English Teaching Assistants but since they both have Masters degrees,\nthey were placed at SPU to work with Dr Mpofu. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both have embraced this opportunity to make a\nlasting contribution to the development of SPU. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria has already been given an opportunity\nto guest-lecture in the School of Education, an experience which she thoroughly\nenjoyed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adeola and Maria have adapted very well to\nlife in Kimberley.  They have found the\npeople welcoming, friendly and helpful. \nThey recently attended their first cricket match and were treated to\nseats in a hospitality suite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are looking forward to seeing more of\nour beautiful country and experiencing their first braai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The two American women cycling up the hill daily (on SPU bikes) from Belgravia to SPU are our first Fulbright Scholars.  Adeola Ajirotutu is from New York City.  She has an undergraduate degree, in Religious and Italian Studies, from the Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5676,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions\/5676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}