About / Nov 10 / Chua and Alem named Woodrow Wilson Fellowship finalists

November 2, 2010
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Two nominees by the Teacher Education Program at UC Santa Barbara named finalists for prestigious Woodrow Wilson Fellowships

Alem and Chua

Kareen Misha U. Chua and Abrham Alem, the two nominees from the Teacher Education Program at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School – one of only 29 campuses across the country chosen to nominate students for the Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowship for Aspiring Teachers of Color (WW-RBF) – have been chosen as finalists for the Fellowship and will interview with the committee in Philadelphia later in November. Chua is a Linguistics major and Education minor, and aspires to be an English teacher. Alem is a Black Studies major with minors in Education and Global Peace & Security, and aspires to be a History/Social Science or Math teacher.

The goal of the WW-RBF Fellowships for Aspiring Teachers of Color is to help recruit, support, and retain individuals of color as K-12 public school teachers in the United States. Current trends indicate that by the year 2020, the percentage of teachers of color will fall to an all-time low of five percent of the total teacher force, while the percentage of students of color in the K-12 system will likely near 50%. This Fellowship offers an important opportunity to ensure that greater numbers of highly qualified teachers of color enter public school classrooms around the country.

Candidates must be nominated by their undergraduate institution in order to be considered for this fellowship program. Each nominating institution is allowed to nominate two candidates for the fellowship. Interested applicants must meet all requirements and campus application deadlines in order to be nominated and move forward in the application process. Acceptance into the Fellowship program is contingent on acceptance into a partner graduate program (such as UCSB). The Woodrow Wilson Foundation expects to award 25 WW-RBF Fellowships in the amount of $30,000 annually.

[Kareen Misha U. Chua and Abrham Alem are available for interviews; contact George Yatchisin at 805 893 5789]
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Two nominees by the Teacher Education Program at UC Santa Barbara named finalists for prestigious Woodrow Wilson Fellowships