INDIANAPOLIS — Jahuan Jarret, a northeastside resident and 2013 graduate of Martin University, has been named as one of 45 Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellows for 2014. The highly competitive Teaching Fellowship prepares candidates specifically to teach in the state’s high-need urban and rural secondary schools.
Jarret will receive $30,000 to complete a specially designed, cutting-edge intensive master’s degree program based on a year-long classroom experience at the University of Indianapolis. He will commit to teach for three years in a school that most need strong teachers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM fields.) Throughout the three-year commitment, he will receive ongoing support and mentoring.
“We at Martin are very proud of Jahuan and offer him our heart-felt congratulations and best wishes,” said Martin University President Dr. Eugene White. “We will continue to follow his career as he makes a difference in the lives of students in Indiana public schools.”
This year’s class is the sixth named since the program began in 2009, and the first class to receive funding from the state of Indiana as part of the $9.7 million STEM grant program approved by the General Assembly in 2013.
Since its launch in Indiana in 2007, the Teaching Fellowship has been generously funded with over $15 million in grants from Lilly Endowment Inc., as well as supplemental state support. The Teaching Fellowship has subsequently been established in four other states — Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey and Georgia.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation of Princeton, New Jersey (www.woodrow.org) identifies and develops leaders to meet the nation’s most critical challenges. In 1945, the Foundation was created to meet the challenge of preparing a new generation of college professors.
