Call for Nominations: SEALC Liaisons (deadline July 1, 2021)

 Call for Nominations: SEALC Liaisons 

The Southeast Asian Language Council (SEALC) invites nominations for two SEA language instructors to serve as liaisons on the SEALC Steering Committee. The goal of these volunteer positions is to inform and enrich discussions on and planning for SEALC activities via increased SEA language instructor representation on the Committee, as well as to provide additional opportunities for instructors to serve on professional committees at the national level.  

Responsibilities  

SEALC liaisons will attend monthly SEALC Steering Committee meetings as non-voting members and assist in the work of the SEALC committee. The term for SEALC liaisons is one calendar year from the date they are elected. 

Eligibility 

Applicants must be Southeast Asian language instructors and active members of COTSEAL. To learn more about COTSEAL and to apply for membership, click here. 

At this time, Indonesian language instructors are not invited to apply. This is to address the current overrepresentation of Indonesian language instructors on the SEALC Steering Committee.  

Nomination Procedure and Election 

Instructors are asked to self-nominate by submitting a brief bio. Nominations will be accepted through July 1, 2021.  Nominees’ information will be circulated through SEALC and COTSEAL and voting will take place virtually at the 2021 COTSEAL Conference (July 23-24, 2021). Only active COTSEAL members are eligible to vote for SEALC liaisons. To submit your self-nomination, please click here for the online form. For questions regarding this opportunity, please email SEALC at sealc@intl.wisc.edu.

SEALC-GETSEA Language Tuition Support

 

SEALC-GETSEA Language Tuition Support

With support from the Henry Luce Foundation, The Southeast East Asian Language Council (SEALC) and The Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA) consortia award financial assistance to students who incur tuition fees when studying a Southeast Asian language during the academic year at an institution other than their home institution via synchronous distance learning. This award is intended to facilitate cross-institutional collaboration and increase access to Southeast Asian language instruction. Eligibility requires that the course is credit-bearing at a North American institution and that the applicant is a full-time student at a North American institution. Priority will be given to graduate students, but all are encouraged to apply. SEALC and GETSEA encourage applicants to consider attending SEASSI which serves as an excellent resource for summer language instruction. This award is intended to improve access during the academic year so that students can obtain multi-year instruction in a timely manner. 

 

What does the assistance cover?

The award provides partial tuition reimbursement for synchronous distance learning of a SE Asian language at a North American institution.

 

Application process:

The application deadline for the 2021-2022 academic year awards is July 15, 2021. Click here for the online application. Please email sealc@intl.wisc.edu with any questions you may have.