{"id":7669,"date":"2021-07-19T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=7669"},"modified":"2021-07-19T12:08:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T16:08:45","slug":"detroit-mercy-awarded-joint-fulbright-hays-group-project-abroad-to-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2021\/07\/19\/detroit-mercy-awarded-joint-fulbright-hays-group-project-abroad-to-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Mercy awarded joint Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad to Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Detroit Mercy, in partnership with Hillsborough Community College (HCC) in Tampa, Fla., is pleased to announce a joint Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad (GPA) for curriculum development to Brazil in 2022.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The GPA will consist of 14 total participants, including a project director and a team of world language and area studies educators from each location.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Detroit Mercy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/people\/university\/clae\/language\/department\/lara-wasner\">Lara Wasner<\/a> will lead six university and K-12 teachers from Detroit, with the goal of creating an opportunity for United States educators to explore meaningful instructional design dedicated to teaching about the Afro-Brazilian diaspora.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Suzanne Lynch of HCC will lead six K-12 and community college educators from Tampa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Travel to Brazil is scheduled for summer 2022 and will include the cities of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais and Salvador, Bahia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The primary objectives of the 2022 GPA are to achieve a thorough understudying of the national and transnational reach of the African-Brazilian diaspora, increase language competency in context and create curriculum that encourages critical engagement and reflection with the Afro-Brazilian culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This partnership advances the work of inclusion, builds on a body of work about Brazil that is complementary and purposeful and creates dynamism of teaching and learning for the two institutions who have both led high-caliber Fulbright programs to Brazil in recent years. Detroit Mercy was awarded and administered GPAs to Brazil in 2016 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Calls for applications will be released to designated schools and districts in early September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Mercy, in partnership with Hillsborough Community College (HCC) in Tampa, Fla., is pleased to announce a joint Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad (GPA) for curriculum &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[195,4704,246,2712,4705],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-1ZH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7672,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669\/revisions\/7672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}