March
11, 2008
Fulbright-Hays Grant Funds Oakton India Project
Oakton Community College is the recipient of a $68,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education, College officials announced. The Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad grant allows faculty from nine Illinois colleges and one local high school to visit India this summer, to study the practices and relevance of Mohandas K. Gandhi.
Funding for the project, called "In Search of Gandhi's India: Teaching and Learning Non-Violence in a Globalized World," was obtained by Katherine Schuster, coordinator of global studies, and Madhuri Deshmukh, professor of English. Participants will trace Gandhi's footsteps and attend seminars by the world's leading authorities on the subject.
Participating schools include Oakton, Black Hawk College, College of Lake County, Elgin Community College, Loyola University Chicago, McHenry County College, Rend Lake College, Southwestern Illinois College, Waubonsee Community College, and Evanston Township High School.
As part of the grant, Oakton will host a two-day academic conference "Global Legacies of Non-Violence: From Mahatma Gandhi to Martin Luther King, Jr.," April 17 and 18 at the Skokie campus, 7701 N. Lincoln Ave. The keynote presentation, which is free and open to the public, is by Dr. Clayborne Carson, 6 - 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 17. Carson is the director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.
Named for J. William Fulbright, a U.S. senator from Arkansas, the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad grants support overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern languages and area studies for teachers, students, and faculty.
For details, contact Katherine Schuster at 847-376-7118 or schuster@oakton.edu.
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