Fall 2025 Updates from the CLI
The CLI (Council on Language Instruction) started the academic year on September 12, 2025, with a hybrid fall orientation led by Dr. Gang Liu, Professor of Chinese at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Liu gave an excellent and timely workshop on “Gamifying Language Learning: Integrating Gameful and Game-Based Approaches in Upper-Level CFL Education.” Thank you to the Meetings & Orientation Committee for organizing this inspiring workshop and the Media and Design Studio and the Language Resource Center for their support. Thank you also to Associate Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs Liz Trubey for her compelling remarks. Updates were further given by CLI chair Ingrid Zeller, MADS (Media and Design Studio) director Matt Taylor, and co-chairs of the Language Resource Center Noriko Taira Yasohama and Elena Lanza.
All the CLI committees are hard at work, and we had our first CLI business meeting of the year on October 7, 2025.
This quarter, join us for the fall breakfast meeting on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Kresge Hall 1515, when language faculty members Chin-Hung Chang, Denise Meuser, Eun Hee Kim, and Ihnhee Kim will present their projects. Lunch will follow the presentations.
Also save the date from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM on Monday, November 17, 2025, in Kresge Hall 3-364 for the first BYOL Informal Language Faculty Gathering, organized by the Language Faculty Development committee, led by Yan Zhou and Massimiliano Delfino, to encourage communication and sharing of ideas amongst language faculty members.
Thank you to the funds committee for funding all 13 requests by language faculty for matching funds, which facilitates organizing exciting events for individual programs and departments.
Looking ahead to Winter Quarter, please start planning for another student-created poster exhibit on remarkable global women around the world on Monday, March 2, 2026, This project is organized by the Outreach Committee and the co-chairs Jacob Brown and Yianting Luo. Also save the date for the next Chicago Language Symposium, which will be organized by Cathy Baumann of the University of Chicago and will take place on Saturday, April 26, 2026. The tentative topic is Surviving in a Time of Change: Embracing Challenges as Opportunities.