ESL, Languages Faculty Awarded VIVA Grant for Course Redesign

Breana Bayraktar, Jackie Weaver, Martha Wheeler (ESL faculty) and Stephanie Harm, (associate dean of languages) at the Woodbridge Campus, have been awarded a Virginia Academic Library Consortium (VIVA) Course Redesign Grant. The goal of the VIVA Course Redesign Grant is “to make textbook and course materials free to students by empowering faculty with the resources and time they need to redesign their curricula using open, library or no cost resources.” In this competitive grant process, VIVA received 41 applications from across the state, with 11 receiving funding. Prof. Bayraktar, Weaver, Wheeler and Assoc. Dean Harm will adapt currently available ESL composition materials and create new materials as needed for ESL 51 (a high-level ESL writing course).