Hands Across the Water:
A Tokyo International University/Tokyo International University of America Joint Teaching Project

The following report is about a subproject of the
Hands Across the Water TIU/TIUA Joint Teaching Project.

Duell Tutorial Tour to TIU of America, Sept. 9-20, 1996

Duell tutorial students with TIUA friends
Photo: Six Duell TIU students at TIU of America with Prof. Barry Duell, TIUA administrators, faculty, and student mentors.


This tour was an outgrowth of the Hands Across the Water joint project being conducted by Prof. Wayne Gregory, TIUA, and Prof. Barry Duell, TIU.

TIU students from past and present Duell Freshman Tutorials visited TIU of America in Salem, Oregon, USA, from September 9 to 20, 1996. This time period was chosen: 1. To give the students a chance to see in session TIU's branch campus TIUA, and TIU's sister university, Willamette University, located adjacent to TIUA, 2. To avoid missing any TIU classes by taking advantage of the last days of the TIU summer break.

The six participants were two current Duell tutorial students, and two students each from the '95 and '94 Duell tutorials. The current Duell tutorial students are involved with the Hands Across the Water Project from April to November 1996.

Two important objectives of the Duell Tour to TIUA were:

1. For each TIU visitor to shadow a TIUA counterpart to experience firsthand a student's perspective of what life at TIUA and WU is like. The TIUA mentors were students from TIUA Prof. Wayne Gregory's tutorial classes who had been in Part I of the Hands Across the Water Project.

2. For the TIU visitor's to experience life in Salem by staying with Salem families during their visit. Students were placed one per family.

Click on each day of the tour to read and see photos about each day's experiences:

Sept. 9 (Mon)

Sept. 10 (Tue)

Sept. 11 (Wed)

Sept. 12 (Thu)

Sept. 13 (Fri)

Sept. 14 (Sat)

Sept. 15 (Sun)

Sept. 16 (Mon)

Sept. 17 (Tue)

Sept. 18 (Wed)

Sept. 19 (Thu)

Sept. 20 (Fri)


Photos and text prepared by Barry Duell, Professor of English, Tokyo International University, in Kawagoe, Japan. Duell is solely responsibility for the entire content of this TIUA Tour presentation. Comments and corrections should be sent to bduell@tiu.ac.jp.
Created: September 19, 1996
Last Changed: Feb. 26, 1997