- Jim Persoon, professor of English, will teach Shakespeare and
African American literature at the University of Cape Coast in
Ghana. Persoon will team-teach an African American poetry course
with Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang, a Cape Coast faculty member who had
taught at Grand Valley on a Fulbright Fellowship.
"He's the one who got me interested in pursuing this," Persoon said. "My main interest is to go to learn and understand how they see African American literature."
Persoon said a shortage of textbooks may present challenges to his class, so he collected books from colleagues before leaving for Ghana.
- Mark Schaub, executive director of the Padnos International
Center, will teach business communications at the Krakow University
of Economics in Poland. Like the University of Cape Coast, the
Krakow University of Economics is a partner university with Grand Valley.
- Jolanda Westerhof-Shultz, associate professor of education, will lecture and conduct research at the Centre for Human Rights Training and Democratic Citizenship Education at the University of Zagreb in Croatia. She is a recent recipient of Grand Valley's Outstanding Teacher of the Year award.
Established in 1946 and considered Americas flagship international educational exchange activity, the Fulbright Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
