Interior Aleutians Campus receives Fulbright grant

August 15, 2011

University Relations

The College of Rural and Community Development's Interior Aleutians Campus was awarded a Fulbright scholar-in-residence grant for the 2011 – 2012 academic year. Sandy Kerr from New Zealand has been selected and will work at IAC to provide new cultural learning opportunities and experiences for staff, faculty and students in diverse Alaskan community settings. Kerr will meet with other indigenous scholars and attend major Alaska Native events such as Alaska Federation of Natives Convention. Kerr will visit all six IAC rural education centers and speak, sing and tell stories with community members about the relevance of indigenous planning and evaluation to community development.

Kerr will also work with IAC faculty to strengthen teaching of planning and evaluation components in all key IAC programs and will teach undergraduate classes on indigenous evaluation in the Tribal Management Program. As well as working with IAC staff and faculty on internal monitoring and evaluation practices, Kerr will collaborate with faculty from across the university to identify needs for an indigenous planning and evaluation course, and help develop it if the need is established.

The Fulbright Program was established by U.S. Senator William Fulbright in 1946 to increase mutual understanding between American people and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.