*********************************
There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
*********************************
U.S. Teaching Assistantships at Austrian Secondary Schools
This program is funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture (BMUKK), and teaching assistants are employed by school boards in all nine Austrian provinces. In 1962 the Austrian-American Educational Commission (AAEC), which manages the Fulbright Program in Austria, also assumed responsibility for recruiting US citizens to participate in this program and administering their applications. Since then over 2,900 college and university students from the United States have been placed as teaching assistants in Austrian secondary schools. Although the participants in this program make a substantial contribution to the fulfillment of the Fulbright Program’s mandate to promote mutual understanding between the peoples of Austria and the United States, participants in the US Teaching Assistantship Program are not grantees in the Fulbright Program.
