The department will continue to support existing partnerships with the Leaders Roundtable (Community ESL Practicum), Atkinson Elementary School and OHSU where we provide leadership for English as a Second Language education. We will also seek out one or more additional partnerships within the greater Portland metropolitan area and beyond, where appropriate. Under this initiative, our goal is two-fold: (1) is to increase capacity in our community-based learning courses so that more students can combine study in Applied Linguistics with community-based learning and (2) provide leadership in areas where organizations are facing language related issues (e.g., issues of language rights, language policy issues, language maintenance issues, working with second language learners of English in the schools/workplace, understanding dialect differences among individuals in organizations).

This initiative seeks to (1) position the Department of Applied Linguistics as a leader and resource on campus for the language educational needs of students who speak English as a second language, both within the IELP and for students in the general student population and (2) increase the number of international students within the department and (3) develop partnerships with international organizations or educational institutions.

This initiative seeks to improve student success within our program and beyond. As part of this initiative, we will: 1. Improve tracking of ALP undergraduate majors and minors through the program and strengthen advising process for these students. 2. Realign curriculum with the department's newly revised BA curricular goals. 3. Restructure course offerings to optimize student completion. 4. Develop a plan for assessment of the BA curricular goals. 5. Revise/restructure the culminating experience for undergraduate ALP majors to include necessary professional development skills.

This initiative seeks to enhance department resources and procedures related to research within the department. It has several parts: 1. Create process and structure within the department that allows us to increase our capacity for research. 2. Develop Ph.D. program in Applied Linguistics Under this initiative, we seek to increase the integration of research activities into academic programs while maintaining current high level of external funding in department. Additionally, we will seek to increase the number of students involved research activities, at all levels of our program. Funds have been allocated from the Dean's office for personnel (faculty lines) for developing the Ph.D. program. The program is in review by the university level administration.

This initiative will seek to increase attendance/retention of under-represented students in Applied Linguistics classes. Initially, it seeks, through the new Revitalizing Endangered Indigenous Languages Certificate program, to focus on increasing enrollment of Native American students and first generation college students in our programs. The certificate program has been recently approved, and will be carried out with existing faculty resources.

The department of Applied Linguistics will review current courses that contain on-line components, and explore where online course offerings can be enhanced. We will also review the curriculum to explore the possibility of offering one or more courses completely online.