Mission

The Center for Language and Culture Learning (CLCL) serves as a vibrant multilingual and multicultural hub for students, faculty, and the wider community. Through research, professional development workshops, technology integration, events, and supplemental instruction, we advance the University’s mission to “prepare students for success and fulfillment in an increasingly diverse and global environment."

Vision

• Support teaching by leading workshops on best practices for communicative approaches to language teaching and effective course design.
• Support student retention and postgraduate success by actively promoting self-assessment, metacognition, and proficiency credentialing.
• Engage in research on new technologies and methodologies.
• Assess technology needs and write grants to improve access to instructional technology.  
• Foster cultural education through practical and interdisciplinary initiatives (e.g., helping to design and teach food studies courses, instructional kitchen).
• Promote faculty research and creative work through strategic communications (e.g., websites, podcasting, newsletter, social media).
• Serve as a hub for community-engaged multilingual efforts (e.g., local community projects, Humanities Labs, internships).