Two Florida Gulf Coast Universityprofessors have just returned from their 10-month leave on a Fulbright Scholar Grant.
These grants are a program of the United States Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and this southwest Florida couple was able to use their grant to live and teach in Rwanda for nearly a year.
Mark Simpson is an associate professor in the college of education at FGCU and teaches courses in curriculum and instruction, and Sheila Bolduc-Simpson is also an instructor at FGCU, alongside her husband. She teaches composition, business writing and integrated studies courses in the college of arts and sciences.
They both join Gulf Coast Live to share their life changing experience in a nation unfortunately known best for the 1994 genocide of one of its minority groups.
