About the SIG:

The Community College ESL Faculty Special Interest Group (SIG) is a group for faculty and staff in ESL/ESOL programs at Community Colleges in Massachusetts. The group meets several times during the school year, and communicates via a MATSOL E-List. Some issues the group has addressed include: Credentialing for ESL across the state; The relationships between Adult Basic Education, workforce ESL and academic ESL; Being proactive on the college campus; Over-reliance on adjunct faculty; Grants and their effects on our programs; Defining success for a community college student; Anti-immigrant backlash; Academic credit for ESL: Writing position papers on important issues. Visit the Community College ESL Faculty SIG page.

About this meeting:

From 3:00-3:30pm, the steering committee will share results from our annual Community College ESL program survey. 

At 3:30 pm, Larry Dean from the Department of Higher Education MassTransfer, will join us to talk about DHE plans to convene a group of Massachusetts community college faculty who teach English to speakers of other languages to discuss how such courses might be more consistently offered throughout the state.

You do NOT have to be a MATSOL member to join these meetings, but if you would like to support MATSOL in our mission to always promote equity and excellence for all English Learners, please consider becoming a member here.

For both MATSOL members and non-members, use the link below to register for the meeting:

Community College ESL Faculty SIG Meeting

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.