06-34
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 30, 2006
www.jcu.edu
Contact: Christine Somosi – 216-397-4663

John Carroll University Graduating Senior
Receives Fulbright Fellowship

Cleveland, OH – Steve Beers ’06, a graduating senior at John Carroll University, and a resident of Kent, Ohio, has won a Fulbright Fellowship for the coming academic year and will use the fellowship to study and teach English to students in Indonesia. The emphasis on this Fulbright Fellowship is cultural exchange. During the year-long experience, Beers will spend 20 hours per week teaching English as a second language. The rest of his time will be spent on his research project in Indonesian literature.

Beers has not yet been assigned to a particular school, but he knows that he may be teaching students from middle school to college age. During his time in Indonesia, Beers hopes to have time to travel around Southeast Asia. Beers will graduate on Sunday, May 21, 2006, during the university’s commencement ceremonies, earning a B.A. in Political Science.

Senator J. William Fulbright sponsored the legislation that created the Fulbright Program in 1946. The program aims to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries, fostering mutual understanding through the cultural and educational exchange of persons, knowledge and skills. The fellowship provides roundtrip transportation, language and orientation courses, tuition, maintenance, and health insurance for those that are awarded the fellowship.

John Carroll University, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a liberal arts university grounded in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition. The university has some 3,350 plus undergraduates and just over 750 graduate students. The U.S. News & World Report’s 2006 annual college guide ranks John Carroll University among the top 10 master’s-degree granting universities in the Midwest and first in average graduation rate. Originally founded as St. Ignatius College in 1886, the university was renamed in 1923 to honor America’s first Catholic bishop, John Carroll of Maryland. John Carroll is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities located in the United States.

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