25, no. 1 (Fall 1993): Back Matter
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Back Matter Fall 1993
Elizabeth Welles Appointed New ADFL Director
Elizabeth Welles became the director of the MLA's office of foreign language programs and ADFL in August 1993. Welles received her BA from Vassar College and her MA and PhD in Italian language and literature from Yale University. Before coming to the MLA, Welles was the coordinator of the Special Opportunity in Foreign Language Education program in the Division of Education at the National Endowment for the Humanities, where she had been a program officer since 1986. Welles has taught at Bryn Mawr College; Vassar College; the State University of New York, Albany; and Yale University. Her primary scholarly work is in Renaissance studies. As the recipient of an NEH fellowship, Welles spent a semester at the Newberry Library in 1981. She has also received two grants for study in Italy from the American Philosophical Society. Her publications include translations from Italian and Latin and articles on literature, alchemy, medicine, and the visual arts. Welles is currently studying representations of marriage in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy. She has been the chair of the Washington Colloquium on Women in the Renaissance since 1989. In March 1993 she cochaired the conference Women and Power: Women and the Visual Arts in the Renaissance, held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC.
Goals 2000: Educate America Act Adds Foreign Languages To National Education Goals
Title I of the Goals 2000—Educate America Act (HR 1804) has been revised by the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor to include arts and foreign languages among the subjects the bill defines as forming the core of American education. The bill calls for the formulation of national standards for education that “will serve as a focal point for education reform efforts and set voluntary goals toward which all students can strive.” The House committee notes that Goals 2000 is a major departure from the way that the federal government has assisted education in the past. “Never in our 200-year history as a nation have we had national standards for what children should know.” The bill departs from traditional education legislation in the breadth of its vision. Instead of targeting specific issues or special groups, the bill calls for system-wide reform, improvement for all children, and flexibility in problem solving. By emphasizing results rather than process, Goals 2000 supports creativity to develop new and innovative approaches. Congressional action on the bill can be expected this fall.
© 1993 by the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages. All Rights Reserved.
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