The English Language Center is enjoying one of its most diverse student bodies ever. Twenty-five countries are represented this Winter Quarter with Korea, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Taiwan having the greatest number of students. For the first time in our 29 years, the ELC welcomes students from Nepal, Taijikistan, the Congo, Haiti and Azerbaijan. We are also happy to have a Rockies pitcher (from Taiwan) studying with us this quarter as well.
The ELC held Interterm classes for a small group of students in December and is now holding an evening ESL class for DU employees. Thanks to DU’s generous tuition waiver policy, employees for whom English is not their native language can improve their English skills through these special classes at the ELC. In the Fall quarter, ELC faculty held two writing workshops for international students at the Law School. At the Rocky Mountain TESOL Conference held in Denver in November,2003,three ELC faculty made presentations: Larenda Mielke, Linda Barrios and David Mindock. Larenda was elected to serve as Chair of the Higher Ed Special Interest Group and Nancy Storer received the Virginia French Allen Award, a prestigious award given for outstanding contributions to the ESL profession.
This quarter Nancy Storer, assistant director, will be attending the TESOL Conference in Long Beach and Norma King, director, will be traveling to the Middle East for the International Admission Office. Several ELC faculty and staff are involved in the Hyde Interviews as well.

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