Application, Rural-Urban Exchange, 2015-2016
Name
Major
“92”#
When do you expect to graduate (month and year)?
Email Address
Cell Phone
WCU Address
Home Address
How would you characterize the diversity of the community in which you grew up and/or
graduated from high school? Is it urban, rural, or suburban? Please provide a short description.
Application Process:
Write an essay explaining how participating in the Rural-Urban Exchange would help you
grow as a teacher. Submit your essay as an email attachment to one of the faculty listed below.
Please limit your essay to 250 words.
Send the Faculty Recommendation Form (below) to a member of the faculty at WCU and ask
him or her to complete it and return it to you. Submit the recommendation form along with your
essay to any of the following individuals:
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Dr. Rus Binkley (Killian 224B, phone 227-3349, email: rbinkley@email.wcu.edu)
Dr. Pam Buskey (100 Reid, phone 227- 7108, email: pbuskey@email.wcu.edu)
Dr. John Habel (Killian 302I, 227-3367, email: habel@email.wcu.edu)
Apply soon! Applications are due November 20, 2015
Students who are selected to participate in the Rural-Urban Exchange will be notified as soon as possible. Students who are
selected to participate can earn one to three hours of academic credit in psychology, elementary education, or middle grades
education and contract to satisfy the Liberal Studies upper-level perspectives requirement.
Submit application and faculty recommendation form to one of the faculty above.
To:
Faculty, College of Education and Allied Professions and College of Arts and Sciences
From: Rus Binkley, School of Teaching & Learning
Pam Buskey, School of Teaching & Learning
John Habel, Department of Psychology
Date: November 2, 2015
RE:
Rural-Urban Exchange
We invite interested and qualified students who are juniors and seniors and not yet in
Internship II or full-time student teaching to participate in the Rural-Urban Exchange (RUE)
involving the College of Education and Allied Professions at WCU and our partner School of
Education at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University (NCA&T) in Greensboro.
The RUE is available to all teacher-education students, including secondary education majors;
BK, elementary and middle grades majors; and majors in K-12 programs such as Inclusive
education, PE, art, music, and foreign languages. We will select six students to participate. WCU
students will visit NCA&T for the week of March 14 – March 18, 2016. During this week the
students will live on the NCA&T campus, spend time in local schools, and in campus and
community activities designed to help them to work with diverse P-12 students. NCA&T
students will spend the week of March 28 – April 1, 2016 at WCU and visit local schools
including the Cherokee Central Schools to gain experience with P-12 schools and students in a
rural setting.
Rural-Urban Exchange Program goals include:
1. To provide substantial field experience in urban communities with P-12 students from
diverse ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, and language groups to WCU students.
2. To provide NCA&T students with significant field experience in rural communities with P12 students.
3. To furnish participating students the opportunity to work with university and public school
faculty who will provide valuable skills and preparation for working with diverse P-12
students.
For more information, go to the RUE website:
http://www.wcu.edu/academics/departments-schools-colleges/CEAP/about-thecollege/ceap-diversity/the-rural-urban-exchange.asp
If you have received this memo, a student is applying to become a participant in the RuralUrban Exchange Program. Please complete the recommendation form and return it to the
student who has asked you to complete it. We will accept application materials until November
20, 2015.
Thank you.
Faculty Recommendation
Rural-Urban Exchange
2015-2016
Name of Student
Name of Faculty Member Providing Reference
I do
do not
recommend this student participate in the Rural-Urban Exchange Program.
Please Explain.
Signature: ___________________________________________
Date ______________
Please return this form to the student who has asked you to complete it. We will accept
application materials until November 20, 2015.