The Shared LCTL Symposium was held in conjunction with the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) Annual Conference in Chicago on April 24, 2025 from 1:30-5:30pm!
2025 Theme: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Personnel from the Mellon Transforming Language Instruction project and the LCTL and Indigenous Languages Partnership project reviewed their collaborative efforts over the years of their funding with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which had made SLCTLS possible over the past nine years. We had an exploratory panel discussion with representatives from various LCTL organizations that explored possible collaborative avenues for the future.
Location: Holiday Inn Chicago Oakbrook
Agenda
- 1:30-2:00 Meet & Greet with refreshments
- 2:00-2:10 Welcome and Introductions
- 2:10-2:30 Innovation Highlight (Featuring OLT Innovation Award Winner!)
- 2:30-2:45 Break
- 2:45-3:45 Mellon Project Highlights: Mellon Transforming Language Instruction Project and the LCTL and Indigenous Languages Partnership Project
- 3:45-4:45 Panel Discussion
- Agustini (COTSEAL, Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages)
- Edna Andrews (SEELRC, Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center, Duke University)
- Kazeem Sanuth (NALRC, National African Language Resource Center, Indiana University)
- Natalie Tran (NRCAL, National Resource Center for Asian Languages, Cal State Fullerton)
- 4:45-5:15 Q&A and guided discussion
- 5:15-5:30 Evaluation, farewell
