The Language Resource Center of Columbia University, with the support of the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, will host a symposium titled, “Language Education in a Time of Crisis: Innovation, Adaption, Transformation,” to take place on Columbia’s Morningside Campus on May 10-11, 2019.

The symposium will address how language programs can and should adapt, transform, and innovate to confront the challenges posed by the nationwide decrease in language enrollments highlighted in the latest report from the Modern Language Association. The presentations will showcase a number of new and future initiatives, at Columbia as well as elsewhere, that seek to increase enrollments and strengthen language programs in a number of ways. These include transforming curricular models, pedagogical practices, and programmatic emphases, as well as stimulating cooperation across departmental lines and disciplinary boundaries.

Per Urlaub, Associate Dean of the Language Schools at Middlebury College, will deliver the opening keynote, and Francis M. Hult, Professor, School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University, Sweden, will give the closing address. We are expecting that more than 150 people will attend. 

More information about the symposium can be found on the symposium website: http://languageconsortium.org/symposium-2019
While the event is free and open to the public, we do ask that people RSVP at their earliest convenience since space is limited.

Should you need additional information about the symposium, please contact Stephane Charitos by telephone at (212) 854-6341 or by email at sc758@columbia.edu.