DRAFT

ORTESOL Higher Education Special Interest Group

Mission Statement

April 16, 2007

Darby Smith and Gwen Heller Tuason

Statement of Purpose

The ORTESOL Higher Education Special Interest Group works to represent the interests and needs of those ESL professionals working in higher education environments in Oregon. Among our concerns are the following:

Professional Concerns

• To promote recognition of ESL as an established academic discipline;
• To promote professional standards and practices among ESL professionals in higher education;
• To improve professional standing and employment conditions for full-time and part-time ESL professionals in higher education;
• To cooperate in appropriate ways with others having similar concerns.

Academic Concerns

• To provide a forum for exchange of views and research related to ESL in higher education;
• To promote research pertinent to ESL in higher education, methods and materials, and program administration;
• To survey the membership to determine the needs, problems, and projects specific to ESL in higher education.

Activities may include but are not limited to the following:

•  To disseminate news, information, and research vital to ESL in higher education.

Thanks to the TESOL Higher Education Interest Section for providing verbiage for this mission statement.

 

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