President Serves Abroad

During spring 2017, a team of 20 volunteers, including WSU President Charles A. Wight and his wife, Victoria Rasmussen, traveled to Ghana as part of a study abroad trip. 

Trip director Lisa Trujillo, WSU associate professor of respiratory therapy, has extensive knowledge and experience with service work in Ghana. In 2016, she helped the University of Ghana implement the country’s first and only respiratory therapy degree program. 

The trip was Wight’s first international service trip with WSU. While in Ghana, he taught short courses on malaria prevention and represented the Rotary Club of Ogden, a trip sponsor. He also met with leaders at the University of Ghana to discuss their respiratory therapy program, which continues to receive development support from Weber State.