Workshops, Presentations, and Keynotes on Language Enrollments

We are offering workshops, presentations, and keynotes for colleges and universities and their language departments and programs. Partners we have worked with (or will be in the near future) include UC Berkeley and UW-Madison. 

Conferences we presented at include ACTFL, the ADE-ALD Summer Seminar (MLA) (plenary), the Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages (keynote), the Innovative Teaching Summit, and the International Language Teacher Education Conference.

Please reach out to any of us if you are interested in us working with your department, program, center, organization, or institution: Emily Heidrich Uebel, Felix A. Kronenberg, and Scott Sterling. 

The Book: Language Program Vitality in the United States

Our co-edited book Language Program Vitality in the United States was published in November 2023 by Springer (part of the Springer for the Educational Linguistics book series.). 

Editors: Emily Heidrich Uebel (Michigan State University), Felix A. Kronenberg (Michigan State University), Scott Sterling (Indiana State University) 

The book documents and addresses root causes of declining enrollments seen in language programs at U.S. institutions of higher education over previous decades. It identifies obstacles created by programs and institutions that prevent students from either initially exploring or continuing with language study, challenges long-held beliefs about language program structures, as well as promotes opportunities for language programs to address these obstacles and innovate in the field. This publication reflects a wide range of opinions and diversity of authors that reflect the broad roles that our readers will encompass. 

Who is this book for? (Target Audience) 

This book can be used by foreign language faculty to reflect on their own programs and university trajectory. It is also for those faculty, language program directors, chairs, university administrators, and graduate students to understand issues and trends facing the field and possible solutions that they may explore. The data provided in this book provides launching point for discussions at a variety of institutions as they adapt to new challenges in the field. Both those “in the trenches” and those who have broader decision-making power about language programs and policies at the university can use this as a reference.