Livermore High School Teacher Earns Ashbrook Summer Fellowship

LIVERMORE, CA — A Livermore High School social sciences teacher has been awarded a Golden State Summer Fellowship by the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ohio, Ashbrook officials announced Monday. Christine Greer will participate in a week-long graduate-level summer course with other students enrolled in Ashbrook's Master of Arts in American History and Government program. As a fellow, her tuition, room, board and books are waived and she will receive a travel stipend, the organization stated.

"During their week at Ashbrook, the summer fellows study the ideas that motivated the people who have shaped our nation's history by reading what these individuals said and wrote at the time," said MAHG program director Chris Pascarella."The fellows then engage in small, discussion-based seminars led by nationally distinguished faculty, and engage with other teachers about the meaning and importance of the ‘core documents’ under discussion."

The courses run from late June through July. This summer's course options include The American Founding; The American Revolution; The Civil War in American History and Literature; The Congress; Great American Texts: The Federalist; Indian Assimilation, Resistance and Removal; Race and Equality in America; The Supreme Court; and, The World Wars in American History and Literature, among several others.

The fellowship was made possible through funding support from a California donor, who has chosen to remain anonymous.

The Ashbrook Center is an independent, nonpartisan nonprofit that works "to restore and strengthen the capacities of the American people for constitutional self-government," according to the organization's mission statement.