Susan Steele has accepted a position as provost of the Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA.
G. Richard Tucker (Carnegie Mellon U) has been awarded the Paul Mellon Distinguished Chair of Applied Linguistics.
American Council of Learned Societies 2002-2003 Fellowship Competition: Judy B. Bernstein (William Paterson U), David W. Kaiser (U Chicago), and Thomas Klingler (Tulane U).
The U TX-Arlington Program in Linguistics will become the Department of Linguistics and TESOL 1 January 2004.
CEDL is sponsoring a competition for travel grants to help offset the cost of presenting papers at the 2004 LSA Annual Meeting in January. Minority students who are presenting papers at the LSA meeting or one of the concurrent meetings in Boston are eligible to apply. See Grants for details.
A report entitled 'Distance Education at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions: 2000-2001' was issued in July by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES). NCES used the Postsecondary Education Quick Information System (PEQIS) to provide current national estimates on distance education at two-year and four-year Title IV-eligible, degree-granting institutions. Data were collected on a variety of topics related to distance education, including the number and proportion of institutions offering distance education courses during the 2000-2001 12-month academic year, distance education enrollments and course offerings, and distance education degree and certificate programs. To download, view, and print the report as a pdf file, go to: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003017.
Two years ago, the NCTE's Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar invited the LSA to participate in the development of a document eventually entitled 'Some Questions and Answers about Grammar' which was enthusiastically discussed and endorsed by the LSA's Language in the School Curriculum Committee. NCTE has invited LSA to expand upon this collaboration by presenting a session at NCTE's 2003 convention in November. Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis U) has organized a panel to discuss projects in which research in linguistics has been brought to bear on methods of classroom instruction. The projects involve teaching reading (Carolyn Adger, CAL), teaching grammar (Anne Lobeck, W WA U), and codeswitching (Rebecca Wheeler, Christopher Newport U). These projects are offered as jumping-off points for collaboration between linguists and educators in developing teaching materials suitable for broad distribution both in school systems and in schools of education.
Project Muse has introduced a number of enhancements that individuals using Language on-line may find helpful. Users now have more options for working with their results including saving, e-mailing, exporting to RefWorks and EndNote, and downloading and printing in text-only format. Users can also view their search history and follow links provided to modify the searches or retrieve all of the results of the searches. The display of the results page has a new look: Information about one's current search is at the top, including options to change the order and display, followed by options to modify or narrow results, an option to move between results pages, then list of results. Links on the right-hand side continue to take users to other search features and the search help. Users can also view page numbers for all results as well as the subject headings Muse assigns to all articles.
J. Marvin Brown (West Valley City, UT)
Kathleen Ferrara (Texas A&M U)
Henry Hoenigswald (U Penn)
Mary Lu Joynes (Waco, TX)
Lloyd A. Kasten (U WI-Madison)
Mary Ritchie Key (UC-Irvine)
James Sledd (U TX-Austin)
Eugenius M. Uhlenbeck (Voorhout, The Netherlands)
Ralph L. Ward (North Branford, CT)
Kenneth G. Wilson (Storrs, CT)