Because of her, I got to graduate college.” She was learning a different language and had to get a job. “She didn’t get that opportunity to finish her education. in the 1990s.īeing the first in her family to graduate college was a big deal, “especially for my mom because she is a stickler for education,” Marc said. Her parents, Lucner Marc and Pauline Mathurin, were born in Haiti and came to the U.S. Marc is a first-generation college graduate and second-generation immigrant. Her time as a UTC student included a study abroad semester in Lyon, France, in 2021 and being selected as a Gilman Scholar to France-a scholarship she had to decline due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. “They even have a whole network of people you can talk to who have been through this experience,” she said.Īccording to the program’s website, there are more than 30,000 TAPIF alumni across the U.S.Ī 2018 Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences graduate, Marc majored in French at UTC-receiving a bachelor’s degree in modern and classical languages and literatures with minors in education and political science. While Marc gets to list Fulbright on her resume, the opportunities TAPIF has to offer, including “help with your master’s and programs where you can go back to France,” were too attractive to pass up. She has been placed in the Académie de Bordeaux at the secondary school level (middle and/or high school). cultural ambassador as part of the TAPIF program. This fall, she is headed to Bordeaux, France, to be a teaching assistant and U.S. “Both options are prestigious and I was going to have the same experience working as a teaching assistant, but I decided to go where I wanted to be.” “It was a tough decision I had two different placements and I had to decide,” Marc said. Just days after learning that news, she found out she had also been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to France after previously being told she was an alternate selection.Įlecting which offer to take wasn’t simple. Marc, an August 2022 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga graduate, was recently accepted into the Teaching Assistant Program in France, better known as TAPIF-an initiative coordinated through the Cultural Services division of the French Embassy in the United States. Sara Marc has been on quite the emotional rollercoaster. August 2022 graduate Sara Marc will soon be heading to France as a TAPIF recipient.
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