Category: Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
TRANSFORMATIVE SPANISH LANGUAGE PROGRAMS:
PREPARING THE WORKFORCE FOR TOMORROW

Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, and the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española are pleased to announce plans for their 3rd annual panel at the 109th AATSP conference in Lisbon, Portugal (June 22-25, 2027) to highlight innovative higher education (2-year and 4-year colleges/universities) programs in the U.S. that have managed to bolster their class enrollment and better prepare students for employment after graduation. Special consideration will be given to Spanish language programs that are responding to the national enrollment cliff, declining language program enrollments, academic program ROI (“return on investment”), and other regional and national trends.

Proposals must include the following:

• Panelist’s full name, title, institutional affiliation, e-mail, and professional bio of no more than 150 words.
• Abstract of talk not to exceed 150 words.

Send as a link (no attachments) to a shared (e.g., GoogleDrive, OneDrive, etc) MS Word document by October 1, 2026 to Mark P. Del Mastro at delmastromp@cofc.edu and Nuria Morgado at nuria.morgado@csi.cuny.edu.  Please ensure there are no access restrictions (persons or time-limits) on the shared document.

Panelists of selected proposals must commit to present in person at the 109th AATSP annual conference, June 22-25, 2027, in Lisbon, Portugal. Each panelist will speak for 5-6 minutes followed by an open discussion with the audience and other panelists.  Presentations are brief to encourage ample conversation/engagement.

Longer versions of the final presentations will be published in the 3^rd edition of Transformative Spanish Language Programs: Preparing the Workforce for Tomorrow that will be updated yearly and made available exclusively to both Sigma Delta Pi and ANLE members.

Eligible proposers are also encouraged to self-nominate (a separate process) for the inaugural Transformative Spanish Language Program Award that will be presented at the same AATSP conference in 2027. Please submit the online nomination form by October 1. Details at https://sigmadeltapi.org/transformative-spanish-language-program-award/.

All questions: delmastromp@cofc.edu

Sigma Delta Pi is pleased to announce that our President Emeritus, Dr. Germán D. Carrillo,
has been elected as one of the newest members of the Board of Directors of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE).  In addition to his Académico de número status in the ANLE, he is Professor Emeritus of Marquette University, and Sigma Delta Pi’s Past President.  As the second longest continuously serving president of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society from 1999-2013, Dr. Carrillo’s many accomplishments in our Society are noted in the 2020 book Sigma Delta Pi: Rediscovering A Century, 1919-2019.

Sigma Delta Pi felicita al Presidente Emérito Germán D. Carrillo
por ser nombrado censor interino de la Academia Norteamericana de Lengua Española.