“Oh, I love France”: story of a Belgian teacher of French in Oregon
I can’t blame anyone for assuming the French Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) would be from France, but I’m not. I’m from Belgium, “tiny,…
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Opening of the 2018-2019 Fulbright Belgium, Luxembourg, and Schuman Application Cycle
Brussels, September 15, 2017 The Commission for Educational Exchange between Belgium, Luxembourg, and the U.S. is pleased to announce that the Fulbright award competition…
Visiting the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra in Salt Lake City
In December 2016, I had the unique opportunity to visit the annual Christmas Concert of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square….
Remote teaching and outreach lecturing while in a sabbatical
I am now arriving almost at the end of my one-year sabbatical in MIT, generously sponsored by Fulbright. As expected, research was vibrant and…
Teaching and Tango in the Twin Cities
I have been teaching Dutch at the University of Minnesota as a Fulbright Foreign Language Assistant (FLTA) and to be honest: if this experience…
Best Practices at NAFSA – April 24, 2017
Best Practices at NAFSA 24 April 2017 | 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Join internationally-minded colleagues from institutions of higher education across Belgium at this…
First Semester
The first semester is already over. Time flies when you are on a new adventure. The good thing about California is that the sun…
Number of Belgian Students in the U.S. Up Over 9 Percent
The number of international students at U.S. colleges and universities surpassed one million for the first time during the 2015-16 academic year—an increase of seven…
Student Organizations
From all the American chick flicks I’ve seen, I created the impression that every American college student is engaged in some sort of student…
Symposium on the American Presidential Elections
Without a doubt, the upcoming 2016 Presidential Election is a worldwide topic of sensation, scandal and intrigue. What one student compared to as being…