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Profile Interview With Dr. Jill Newton, Kylie Arnholt, Emma Copp, Kelly Hock, Meredith Marsden

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

Dr. Jill Newton has been a professor in the Math Education Department of the College of Education since 2008. She started the Tanzania study abroad program in 2010, and has been taking education and non-education students since. The program goes for a month and the students get to teach in local schools and experience small town life in Tanzania. Students take classes to get towards their Global Studies minor, and get to live at Fish Eagle Point during their stay. The curriculum is focused on teaching across cultures and learning about the education system worldwide, but most importantly, students are …