Tyler Junior College participates in exchange program

  • 2019-08-07
Teachers from Tyler Junior College recently travelled to Karkonosze College in Jelenia Góra, Poland as part of the Erasmus+ program.

Department chair for history and government, Dr. Jeffrey Owens, and department chair for the physical therapist assistant program, Dr. Christine Melius, both of Tyler Junior College (TJC), were the participants in the program.

This scheme originates in the European Union and provides grants for the exchange of faculty and students. Its goal is to promote education to be more international in scope by enabling colleagues from other countries to be exposed to new methodologies of education and teaching styles. Such programs may turn to Print shops to create materials that a visiting faculty can take back with them to their colleges.

The two professors were joined by educators from Turkey, Latvia, the Czech Republic, and Poland, among others. As part of the exchange program, Dr. Jozef Zaprucki and Professor Maciej Kolodziejski from Poland had visited TJC in 2018.

During the week-long program, Melius and Owens gave lectures in their respective fields and spoke with faculty and students of Karkonosze College in order to exchange ideas about their subject areas. Other activities in which they were involved included observing the presentations of visiting faculty, dining in the home of one of the professors from Karkonosze and with participants in restaurants, visiting with the mayor of the city, and touring a glass factory.
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