ALBION, Mich. – An Albion College senior has been awarded a Fulbright grant to teach in Germany during the 2007-2008 academic year.

Brynn Howard, a German major from East Lansing who is graduating from Albion on May 12, will be a teaching assistant in English classrooms at the middle or high school level in the Baden-Wurttemberg area of Germany.

“Brynn has always been a really great German student,” said Catherine Grimm, assistant professor of German in the foreign languages department. “She has a lot of connections to Germany and Austria and we were all really happy for her when she got the Fulbright.”

Howard, whose mother is a German teacher, said she looking forward to returning to Germany to teach and work with students studying English.

“I am very excited about the Fulbright,” Howard said. “I want to become fluent in German. Maybe I’ll be inspired to go back to school and perhaps work with children after the program.”

In the summer of 2005, Howard lived with a family in Schwabisch Gmund, Germany, as an au pair for two children. She also interned in Bonn, Germany, in the fall of 2005.

Howard has worked for Allstate Insurance as an events planner for bonus incentive trips for salespeople, and said she has an offer to return to the position when she finishes her stint in Germany.

“Opportunities open up for students during their year in Germany,” Grimm said. “They get to interact with Germans and experience German culture in a way that they would not normally. For any one even remotely interested in teaching and mentoring, it gives an insight into the cultures that you would not normally get on a study abroad program.”

The Fulbright program is the largest U.S. exchange program, offering opportunities for students and young professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide. Since the establishment of the program in 1946, more than 42,000 students from the U.S. and 147,000 students from other countries have benefited from the Fulbright experience.

For more information contact Morris Arvoy at 517-629-0543 or marvoy@albion.edu.
 

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