For its 2015–16 fiscal year, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation’s Board of Trustees has a new Chair and two new Trustees. Thomas C. Hudnut, a Woodrow Wilson Trustee since 2005, was elected Chair at the Board’s June 2015 meeting. Mr. Hudnut is a member of RG175, a firm specializing in leadership and governance consulting for nonprofits […]
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation introduced the second class of the WW New Jersey Teaching Fellows earlier this summer. Fellows were welcomed by NJ Acting Governor Kim Guadagno and WW Executive Vice President and COO Stephanie J. Hull at an event at The College of New Jersey in Ewing. Of the 65 new Fellows, 58% are […]
Earlier this summer, Woodrow Wilson announced the inaugural class of WW Georgia Teaching Fellows (link to press release) with the help of GA Gov. Nathan Deal at the State House in Atlanta. Fellows in this first year’s class will attend Columbus State, Kennesaw State, and Piedmont College, with Georgia State and Mercer University taking Fellows […]
For a preview of the WW HistoryQuest Fellowship, a group of New Jersey history teachers convened last month at the New York offices of The Institute of Play. During a day-long workshop, they focused on using game-based learning in the classroom. Fellows explored the anatomy of game design, learned to modify and develop games, and play-tested […]
As the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation announces its 2015 classes of Fellows in Georgia, Indiana, and New Jersey, WW Perspectives catches up with a 2014 New Jersey Teaching Fellow who is seeing her impact in the class room. Darlene Fleming gets excited as she talks about the first time one of her students […]
Maribel Vasquez, as a U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Officer slated for a new post in China, seeks to help people around the world understand “our common humanity.”
A weekend profile in The Washington Post features Ms. Vasquez, a 2012 Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellow. Her preparation for the Foreign Service included master’s degree work at American University, combined with support and mentoring through the Thomas R. Pickering Fellowship program.
Video of a daily press briefing—and a shout-out to the Pickering Fellowship program in its first minute—is just in from Oriana Luquetta, a 2014 Pickering Graduate Fellow who is currently an intern in the Department of State Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Press Relations. Oriana is pursuing her master’s in public policy and specializing […]
This is one of a series of posts featuring Fellows from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation network. It was a high school experience that initially sparked Elvia Valle to pursue global studies and seek a career with the Foreign Service. The 2015 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellow talks about her path: “I grew up […]
Recently the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, in collaboration with MIT, launched the new WW Academy of Teaching and Learning—a major national effort to improve the preparation of teachers and school leaders, and to provide new models for reforming educator preparation nationwide. Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, spoke with WW Perspectives about why.
Monica A. Coleman, MN ’00 CEF ’09, is a self-described “big nerd.” As a high school student, Dr. Coleman got interested in African-American literary criticism while working at the local library. With eyes set on Wall Street, the Ann Arbor native set off to Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges with intentions of studying math and economics. […]
