{"601064":{"#nid":"601064","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Anna Westerstahl Stenport Elected to the ADFL Executive Committee","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnna Westerstahl Stenport, chair and professor of the School of Modern Languages, has been elected to the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.adfl.mla.org\/About\/ADFL-Executive-Committee\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eexecutive committee of the Modern Language Association\u0026rsquo;s Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (MLA-ADFL\u003C\/a\u003E) for a four-year term, beginning January 2018.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRepresenting approximately\u0026nbsp;one thousand college and university departments, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.adfl.mla.org\/About\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EADFL\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;takes a leadership role in examining\u0026nbsp;issues confronting the study, research, and advocacy of modern and foreign languages in the United States and Canada.\u0026nbsp;The ADFL articulates field-wide consensus on standards of good practice in education, outreach, and evaluation of teaching and scholarship, employment and workload conditions, and procedures for departmental review, in addition to conducting surveys on undergraduate and graduate programs, staffing, doctoral placements, and enrollments.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn her role, Stenport will be advocating in particular for the needs, visibility, and contributions of less commonly taught languages, especially at research one universities and in the service of public engagement.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.adfl.mla.org\/Seminars\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E2018 ADFL-ADE Summer Seminar South\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;will be held at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center from\u0026nbsp;June 13 - 17.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnna Westerstahl Stenport, chair and professor of the School of Modern Languages, has been elected to the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.adfl.mla.org\/About\/ADFL-Executive-Committee\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eexecutive committee of the Modern Language Association\u0026rsquo;s Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (MLA-ADFL\u003C\/a\u003E) for a four-year term, beginning January 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Anna Westerstahl Stenport has been elected to the executive committee of the Modern Language Association\u2019s Association of Departments of Foreign Languages for a four-year term."}],"uid":"28754","created_gmt":"2018-01-19 16:55:02","changed_gmt":"2018-01-26 19:57:24","author":"T. Jesse Brannen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"601063":{"id":"601063","type":"image","title":"Anna Stenport","body":null,"created":"1516380741","gmt_created":"2018-01-19 16:52:21","changed":"1516380741","gmt_changed":"2018-01-19 16:52:21","alt":"","file":{"fid":"229092","name":"Stenport.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Stenport.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Stenport.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":8236,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Stenport.jpeg?itok=hDw0Ek5T"}}},"media_ids":["601063"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"175405","name":"ADFL"},{"id":"176906","name":"Anna Westerstahl Stenport"},{"id":"3643","name":"Modern Languages"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nrebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}