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Dear HEIS Community,
This is María Rossana Ramírez. I am the chair of the Higher
Education Interest Section (HEIS) for the 2019–2020 period. It is my
great pleasure to serve this academic interest section. Let me start by
thanking the TESOLers that attended the HEIS business meeting. It was
again very nice to see and meet with you.
Figure 1. Members from 2019 TESOL HEIS business meeting
I would also like to introduce our HEIS leaders:
· Maria Ammar, Chair-Elect
· María Rossana Ramírez, Chair
· Kevin Martin, Past Chair.
We agreed to set goals for this period to guide our efforts in
assisting you. There are three main goals we will focus our attention
on:
a. Increase member engagement.
b. Review and revise bylaws.
c. Increase professional development sessions.
For the first goal, a survey will be sent to the community.
Your participation in filling it out will be appreciated. For the
second, the last revision of the bylaws was done in 2011, so we consider
it pertinent to update them with the current trends and changes of
TESOL. Lastly, professional learning and research are part of TESOL’s
mission, and we should pay attention to these two aspects.
Feel free to add to this list by posting your ideas in our myTESOL
forum.
Regards,
María Rossana Ramírez
Chair, TESOL Higher Education Interest Section
Maria Rossana Ramirez-Avila is the coordinator of the
Languages Master Program at Casa Grande University in Guayaquil,
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