Visiting the FAWE Girls’ School, Kigali

In July 2009 Catherine Reiland led a group of 14 teachers from across the United States to Rwanda for 30 days with the support of the Fulbright-Hays Groups Projects Abroad, a grant of the United States Department of Education. A version of this dispatch originally appeared here. On a late afternoon we made our way …

Inside Islam interview about studying abroad in Senegal

Inside Islam: Dialogues and Debates highlights Sara Erickson, a UW–Madison student who studied abroad in Saint-Louis, Senegal, during her junior year. She talks about improving her French while learning Wolof for the first time. Catherine Reiland conducted the interview in January, 2009, on a balcony of the Hotel de la Poste which has a view of …