{"id":154911,"date":"2020-07-02T10:14:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T14:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=154911"},"modified":"2020-07-02T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T14:14:52","slug":"alumnus-earns-competitive-fellowship-to-teach-constitution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2020\/07\/02\/alumnus-earns-competitive-fellowship-to-teach-constitution-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Earns Competitive Fellowship to Teach Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2006 graduate Sam Ulmschneider (left), a global studies and history teacher based in Richmond, was recently named Virginia’s 2020 recipient of the James Madison Fellowship.<\/p><\/div>

Persistence paid off for UMW graduate Sam Ulmschneider.<\/p>

The global studies and history teacher was recently named Virginia’s 2020 recipient of the James Madison Fellowship – on his fourth attempt to earn the award.<\/p>

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The $24,000 prize is given to just one recipient per state each year to promote outstanding teaching of the U.S. Constitution in secondary schools. It will allow Ulmschneider to pursue a second master’s degree while he continues to teach gifted high schoolers at his other alma mater, Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School in Richmond.<\/p>

Two of Ulmschneider’s previous fellowship applications resulted in his being named a runner-up. Undiscouraged, he kept applying, a process that included a lot of essay-writing. “I felt like my students do when they’re filling out their college applications,” he said.<\/p>

His own education at Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School – and the Advanced Placement credits he earned there – allowed him to focus on his academic interests almost immediately at UMW.<\/p>

“The advising system was wonderful, and it’s one of the things I took away from Mary Washington,” said Ulmschneider, who double majored in history and philosophy with a minor in religion, and joined the University’s club fencing team. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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