July
16, 2007
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY TO HOST FULBRIGHT
SUMMER
PRE-ACADEMIC PROGRAM
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY,
PA ~ Lincoln University will host 30
graduate students coming to the United States for two weeks
for further education as part of this year’s Fulbright
Pre-Academic Summer Program. The
students will arrive at Lincoln on July 22.
The students assigned
to Lincoln will be involved in a program that focuses on English
language and refinement of academic skills, Fulbright program
goals, orientation to U.S. culture, survival skills for graduate
students, and cross-cultural orientation.
The
program is divided into two sessions daily. In the first, faculty
will help facilitate the transition from home-country academic
conventions to American academic conventions in written and
oral communication (Standard American English). The
program also covers discipline-based research paradigms (library
and internet), computing skills, and generally with relevant
customs of academic culture in American higher education, including
different aspects of graduate workload and faculty expectations
from graduate students.
Afternoon sessions will concentrate
on cross-cultural awareness forums that will provide opportunities
for Fulbright students to develop an understanding of the cultural
values and cultural diversity of American society.
According to Constance Lundy,
program and logistics director of the Fulbright program at
Lincoln University, “The
pool of students assigned to Lincoln’s pre-academic program
will be from 23 countries. Most participants will not
have previously studied at U.S. institutions of higher education,
and many of them have never been to the United States.”
The
students will visit the Amish country, Longwood Gardens, Philadelphia,
and Washington, D.C. There is also a host
family component where the Fulbright students will spend one
day visiting with Lincoln University and West Grove/Avondale
Rotary Club families in the area.
The Department of State selects
340 students to participate in the Fulbright program, which
serves as a preparatory experience for students before they
enroll in U.S. institutions to begin graduate studies in the
fall.
Lincoln
University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
1570 Baltimore Pike, P.O. Box 179, Lincoln University, PA 19352
\ (484) 365-8000
