Purdue to welcome second Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows class
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Sixteen new students will arrive at Purdue University next week to join a program designed to send specially trained math and science teachers into rural schools in Indiana.
The second group of Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellows will be on campus Monday (June 7). They will join 17 students who have spent a year in the College of Education program, which is intended to encourage exceptionally able candidates to seek long-term careers teaching science, technology, engineering and math (the STEM fields) in high-need classrooms.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, based in Princeton, N.J., chose Indiana for its first fellows program for high school teachers. Fellows also attend Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, the University of Indianapolis and Ball State University.
The Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellows program provides stipends of $30,000 to the students during their one-year master's program. In addition, Purdue will provide the fellows with graduate tuition scholarships. The Purdue fellows agree to teach in a rural Indiana school for three years.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the Lilly Endowment Inc. are providing funding for the Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellows.
The Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellows are part of Purdue's STEM Goes Rural program. STEM Goes Rural is a pioneering program to staff rural secondary schools with teachers who are trained in both education and the STEM disciplines. It is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary effort by the colleges of Education, Science, Engineering, Agriculture and Technology.
A reception for the new Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows will be from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesday (June 8) in the Prusiecki Banquet Room of Dauch Alumni Center.
More information about the second group of Purdue Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows can be found at https://www.purdue.edu/stemgoesrural/About/2nd_cohort.html
Writer: Judith Barra Austin, 765-494-2432, jbaustin@purdue.edu
Source: Tonya Agnew, College of Education director of communication, 765 494-0568, tragnew@purdue.edu