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JUDAY EARNS FULBRIGHT FULL GRANT TO STUDY IN AFRICA |
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April 13, 2010
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Grove City College senior Luke Juday of Chesapeake, Va., has earned a Fulbright Full Grant to Botswana, Africa, for academic year 2010-2011. The Full Grant is the most prestigious student Fulbright fellowship awarded.
For a 10-month period, Juday, a political science major, will be affiliated with the University of Botswana Debating Master’s Association, helping to develop new debating programs at colleges around Botswana and southern Africa. He will work closely with the association as Botswana hosts the 2011 World Universities Debating Championship, the largest international debate championship in the world. Juday represented Grove City College at the 2010 Worlds, held in Antalya, Turkey. He recently helped lead the Grove City College Speech and Debate Team to a No. 2 national ranking by the National Parliamentary Debate Association for 2009-2010. He was also ranked best speaker in the varsity parliamentary debate in the entire country at the Pi Kappa Delta sweepstakes.
While in Africa, Juday will also take courses in African politics at the University of Botswana and conduct independent research on the role debate plays in training future leaders and how African youth approach debate on public policy issues. His project title is “Competitive debate as a form of civil discourse in African democracy.”
At Grove City College, Juday is the senior class president. He is editor for The Collegian Perspectives Board, the co-founder and president of the Webster Dialectic Society and a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa leadership honorary and Student Faculty Review Board. He has held leadership roles in the Adelphikos fraternity, the Interfraternity Council, the Pi Sigma Alpha political science honorary and was a student fellow for The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College.
The Fulbright Program was established to increase understanding between people of the U.S. and other countries through the exchange of people, knowledge and skills. Fulbright grants are awarded worldwide to Americans and citizens of other countries to teach, study, lecture or conduct research. Each year, about 1,500 awards are granted in the U.S. Student Program.
Winners of Full Grants must develop their own research proposal and find an institution with which to affiliate overseas in a country of their choice. The competition is rigorous and involves four stages: an interview and evaluation by a specially appointed faculty committee at the candidate’s undergraduate institution, consideration of the candidate’s application and faculty committee report by the National Screening Committee at the U.S. State Department’s Institute for International Education, consideration by the host country agency in charge of Fulbright grantees and final selection by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Grantees receive a stipend, tuition and travel funds for their 9- to 12-month grant period.
Juday’s grant is Grove City’s sixth Fulbright award since 2000 and its third Full Grant. Most recently, David Frick ’09 received a Full Grant to China to study accounting practices in small businesses.
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