Departments. Applied Linguistics, 1954-2004 | Saint Michael's College Archives & Special Collections

By Elizabeth B. Scott

Printer-friendly |

Collection Overview

Title: Departments. Applied Linguistics, 1954-2004

ID: SMC 15/15.1/

Extent: 21.0 Boxes

Arrangement: Material is arranged in three series, the CIP, SIS, and Tri-state bilingual project

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Material is arranged in three series, the CIP, SIS, and Tri-state bilingual project. The series are each arranged alphabetically. The material maintains its original order, although confidential student records were separated and are restricted.

Collection Historical Note

The Department of Applied Linguistics was founded in 1954 when the college decided to form a program to help international students learn English. The program was the brainchild of Prof. Ernest Boulay. Initially known as the program in English for Foreign Students, it welcomed individuals, but very soon set up programs with organizations from different countries to teach groups of students. One of the first groups to attend was sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Institute of International Education. This group was made up of 100 Hungarian freedom fighters, who had escaped from the Soviet takeover in Hungary. Around the same time, the scope of the program expanded to include teacher training in addition to English language training. The success of this program led to the establishment of the MATESOL program in 1962, one of the first of its kind in the country. The name of the program changed during this period to the Department of English for Foreign Students. By the 1960s, it changed to the Program in English for Foreign Students and then it changed again to the Program in English for International Students (ISP). Around the time this name change occurred, the program moved to North campus, where it was housed for 20 years. The program continued to grow considerably during the 1970’s. In the 1980’s the program was renamed the Center for International Programs. Many new programs were adopted, including the CAMPUS program, where a small number of upper level students came to Saint Michael’s from some Central American countries and the development of close relationships with some Japanese schools—Akenoshi, Seibo, and later Showa. One innovative program was the Tri-State Bilingual project. This was a grant program administered through SMC but involving the Education departments of Maine, NH, and VT. It was an innovative project aimed at involving parents in teaching English as a second language. For a time the department operated as the School of International Studies. The offerings of the program have continued to evolve. The program still works with both formal programs and individuals. The Administration works hard to integrate students into campus life, despite the majority of their classes being separate. Its stated goal is to “orient students to daily life, customs, and institutions of life in the United States.”

Administratively, the department has fallen in many different places. It began as an independent program, but soon moved under Academic Affairs. From 1964-2004, the program was run by a Dean, who reported directly to the Vice President for Academic Affairs. In 2004-05, the program once again became a department of the college, operating along the same lines as other academic departments. In 2007, the department changed its name to better reflect modern teaching theories and its departmental status.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Center for International Programs],
[Series 2: School For International Studies],
[Series 3: Tri-State Bilingual Program],
[All]

Series 1: Center for International Programs

Box 1

Folder 1: Achievement Awards 1969
Folder 2: Achievement Awards Program 1970
Folder 3: Administration 1990's
Folder 4: Administrative Correspondence 1970's
Folder 5: Administrative Correspondence 1980's
Folder 6: Adult Education 1969
Folder 7: 40th Anniversary
Folder 8: 45th Anniversary Celebration Aug 4, 1999
Folder 9: Appendix-Original of Material Used for all Proposals 1967-69
Folder 10: Barrington College
Folder 11: Basic Vocab List-Ernest A. Boulay & Eugene O'Neill 1966
Folder 12: Bilingual Education Project-Draft-in Northern VT
Folder 13: Brochures
Folder 14: Budget-EPDA Institute 1969-Original of First and Final Budgets
Folder 15: Bulletin for Supervisors of Student Teaching in the Co-Operating Secondary Schools
Folder 16: Campus Map 1969
Folder 17: Caswell, Robert 1967-69
Folder 18: Catalogue
Folder 19: CIEE-Contract Information
Folder 20: Citations for Outstanding Contributions in International Understanding 1968-69
Folder 21: Clippings
Folder 22: College Background and Experience in ESOL
Folder 23: Committee on Committee 1969
Folder 24: Council on International Educational Exchange 1968-70
Folder 25: Council on International Educational Exchange-Japanese
Folder 26: Dean of Men 1969
Folder 27: Doherty, John 1968
Folder 28: Early Childhood Oct 1969 for Fall 1970 MATESL Program
Folder 29: Education and World Affairs 1968
Folder 30: EFS Class Schedules Enrollment 1968-69
Folder 31: EFS Policy Statements 1967
Folder 32: EFS Special Activities Aug 1967-68
Folder 33: EPDA Correspondence Institute
Folder 34: EPDA-ESOL Institute 1970 Budget
Folder 35: EPDA General Info 1969
Folder 36: EPDA Preliminary Guidelines 1968-69
Folder 37: EPDA Institute Plan of Operation Budget 1969
Folder 38: EPDA 1968 Proposals
Folder 39: EPDA Reports to Washington 1969
Folder 40: ESL Staff Analysis of Faculty/Staff Changes 3/21/68
Folder 41: ESL 30th Anniversary Brochure
Folder 42: ESOL Proposal to U.S. Office Education for Advance Study June-Aug 1968
Folder 43: Experiment in International Living 1969
Folder 44: Extension Services
Folder 45: Extension Services: English 1965
Folder 46: Faculty/Staff Meeting: International Student Program 1967
Folder 47: Faculty Summer 1969 Class Schedule
Folder 48: Fellowship Program for Fall 1970-MATESL Renewal Oct 1969
Folder 49: Forms (Application for Stipend, Confidential Evaluation, Admissions Application)
Folder 50: Government Application-Teaching ESL 1968
Folder 51: Graduate Courses Summer 1970
Folder 52: Graduate Studies-MA and MAT 1968-70
Folder 53: History 1994
Folder 54: IEP Graduation Program-Friday Nov. 17, 1995
Folder 55: Institute of International Education 1968-70
Folder 56: International Act: Correspondence
Folder 57: International Agencies: Miscellaneous
Folder 58: International Student Program Report-Feb 1970

Box 2

Folder 1: International Week
Folder 2: Jackson-Engels Project 1969
Folder 3: Job Specifications 1968-67
Folder 4: Language Laboratory
Folder 5: Language Lab Manual-Elementary Series 100 (1963)
Folder 6: Language Lab Manual-Advanced Series 300 (1964)
Folder 7: Language Lab Manual-Advanced Series 300 (1964)
Folder 8: Language Lab Manual-High Advanced Series 400 (1964)
Folder 9: Language Lab Manual-Elementary Series 100 (1966)
Folder 10: Language Lab Manual-Intermediate Series 200 (1966)
Folder 11: Language Lab Manual-Advanced Series 300 (1966)
Folder 12: Language Lab Manual-Elementary Series 100 (1967)
Folder 13: LASA-Latin American Studies Association 1968-70
Folder 14: Latin American Fellowship Program-Ford Foundation-MIT Meeting 1968
Folder 15: Latin American Scholarship Program
Folder 16: Legislation 1967-68
Folder 17: Library 1968-69
Folder 18: Libyan Arab Republic, Embassy of: 1968-70
Folder 19: Light, Dr.-Memos 1969-70
Folder 20: Mailing Lists 1969-70
Folder 21: MATESL Degree Program-Project Income 1970-71 Enrollment
Folder 22: MATESL Proposals-Upward Bound-1967
Folder 23: Matsuri
Folder 24: Mr. McDowell
Folder 25: Miscellaneous 1954
Folder 26: Monthly Reports 1967-68
Folder 27: Murphy, Dr. Edward-Memos-1967-68
Folder 28: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) 1970
Folder 29: NDEA Budget 1968
Folder 30: NDEA Faculty 1968-69
Folder 31: NDEA-ESOL Final Report
Folder 32: NDEA-ESOL Institute Final Report 1968
Folder 33: NDEA Guest Speakers 1968
Folder 34: NDEA Information-Grades and Schedules-1968
Folder 35: NDEA Institute Meetings 1968
Folder 36: NDEA-ESOL Notices 1968
Folder 37: New England Colleges English Association 1967
Folder 38: New England Colleges English Association 1969
Folder 39: Newspaper Clippings
Folder 40: O'Neill, Eugene-Memos 1969
Folder 41: Only One Way to Winooski-Richard Yorkey 1982-Revised 1987
Folder 42: Originals-Proposals 1967-68
Folder 43: Pan-Language House 1969
Folder 44: Placement 1968-69
Folder 45: President's Advisory Council-Father Dupont 1969
Folder 46: Program and Staffing-Summer 1969
Folder 47: Proposal-Institute for Teachers of French Speaking Children 1967
Folder 48: Proposals-1968 Manual
Folder 49: Proposals-1969 EPDA Manual
Folder 50: Prospective Teacher Fellowship Information 1967-68
Folder 51: Prospective Teacher Fellowship Final Report 1968-70
Folder 52: Public Relations 1968
Folder 53: Publications-Bell Tower
Folder 54: Publications-CIP

Box 3

Folder 1: Publications-Polyglot and Poco Loco-1958-61
Folder 2: Publications-Proficiency Plus
Folder 3: Publications-Treasures (Yearbook)
Folder 4: Quarterly Budget Reports 1969-70
Folder 5: Questionnaires on MATESL Program 1969-70
Folder 6: Questionnaires-NDEA Participants 1968
Folder 7: Reading List-English Concentrations 12/67
Folder 8: Recommendations-Students 1968-70
Folder 9: Reports
Folder 10: Rosters-Center for International Programs
Folder 11: Sales (Bookstore) 1967-69
Folder 12: Scholarship Information ISP
Folder 13: S. America/Dr. Hammerstrand 8-1968
Folder 14: Special Activities July 1968-Aug 1969
Folder 15: Special Activities Sept 1969-70
Folder 16: 2nd State-Wide Planning Conference on Education Professions Development Act-March 1968
Folder 17: Statistics
Folder 18: Strategic Plan-May 25, 1993
Folder 19: Student Affairs Committee-1967-70
Folder 20: Student Directories 1962-70
Folder 21: Student Handbooks
Folder 22: Student Publications
Folder 23: Summer Enrollement 1968-ISP
Folder 24: Summer Institute-Summary of Proposals 1968
Folder 25: Summer Session (News, Final Exam Schedule, Assignments) 1967-68
Folder 26: Summer 1969 Session
Folder 27: Summer Session 1970
Folder 28: Summer Staffing 1968-70
Folder 29: Syllabus/Elementary Course Nov. 1967
Folder 30: TESOL 1968-70
Folder 31: TESL-Brochures and Expense Listings 1969
Folder 32: TESL-Budget 1969-70
Folder 33: TESL Institute Vermont Catalog-1995
Folder 34: TESL Faculty 1968-69
Folder 35: Title XI Proposal (Originals) Aug. 1966
Folder 36: Wehmeyer, Dr. D.J. Director, Extension Services 1969-70
Folder 37: World Affairs, Vermont Council on: 1969-70

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Center for International Programs],
[Series 2: School For International Studies],
[Series 3: Tri-State Bilingual Program],
[All]