IWU Professor Receives Fulbright Scholar Award
By Alan Miller
2/17/06

Dr. Nancy G. Saunders, who teaches in Indiana Wesleyan University's Masters of Education program, has received a Fulbright Scholar Award to teach and do research in Chile. She will leave in February 2007 to spend six months at the University of Concepcion.

Dr. Saunders' work in Chile will focus on the country's English Opens Doors initiative, which is designed to intensify the learning of English so that Chilean students have better opportunities in today's global world.

The university is located in Concepcion, Chile, a city of 220,000 people. Concepcion is located on the Pacific Ocean, about 500 miles south of the Chilean capital of Santiago.

Dr. Saunders, an Associate Professor of Graduate Studies in Education, has taught at IWU since 1997. She earned her undergraduate degree at Vassar College and her master's and doctoral degrees from Ball State University.

Dr. Saunders and her husband, George, live in Muncie. He will travel to Chile with his wife. The Saunders have two children, Betsy, who teaches in Honduras, and John, who is a doctoral candidate in physics at the University of California at San Diego.

The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. The program was signed into law in 1946 as a result of legislation introduced in Congress by U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright.

The Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year.

Alan Miller is the University Relations Director at Indiana Wesleyan University.