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July 14, 2000
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Approximately 30 South African educators are learning about American higher education in a summer institute at Indiana University.
The IU African Studies Program, in cooperation with the School of Education, is hosting the six-week event that will conclude locally on July 21. The participants will spend July 22-28 in Washington, D.C., in the final week of the program.
Virginia DeLancey, associate director of the African Studies Program, said the visiting teachers and educational administrators are receiving intensive training in education and teaching, as well as a structured agenda of cultural and diversity programs in the United States. A social highlight of the institute will be an African culture night with a dinner and program on Saturday (July 15).
Course work topics include multicultural/multilingual education, computers, training in outcomes-based education, a teaching resources workshop, and visits with state and county education leaders. Social events include visits to Chicago, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, the Brown County Playhouse, the IU production of The Sound of Music, and Conner Prairie historic village near Indianapolis.
For more information on the summer institute, contact DeLancey at 812-855-6825 or vdelance@indiana.edu
(Richard Doty, 812-855-0084, rgdoty@indiana.edu)