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Created: 08 February 2012

Anaheim University will hold a graduation ceremony in Orange County, California on the evening of Saturday, July 21st, 2012. Graduates of all programs (Business Administration, Sustainable Management and TESOL) are invited to attend.

Further details regarding the exact time and location of the graduation ceremony are to be announced.

Renowned Japanese Actress Ayako Wakao (front center) poses with graduates at 2008 graduation ceremony in Tokyo, Japan

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Created: 07 February 2012

Anaheim University will hold a 4-day residential session for its Online Master of Arts (MA in TESOL) degree program in Orange County, California from Saturday, July 21st to Tuesday, July 24th, 2012. The session will be held from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Thursday to Monday and from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm on Tuesday.

In conjunction with the residential session, a graduation ceremony will be held on the evening of Saturday, July 21st for graduates of all programs, allowing graduates of Anaheim University's Business Administration, Sustainable Management and TESOL programs to attend.

Further details regarding the location of residential and graduation facilities are to be announced.

MA TESOL students and faculty at 2011 residential session

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Created: 09 February 2012

Anaheim University President Dr. William Hartley

Most colleges and universities around the country reacted with strong words of concern to President Obama’s recent State of the Union address in which he announced he was putting colleges on notice and that colleges and universities have to do their part in order to keep costs down. However, one private university in Southern California praised President Obama for putting students first.

Anaheim University President William Hartley stated, “Over the past several decades, it has become a custom for U.S.-based universities to hit students with annual tuition increases, regardless of the state of the economy. This is irresponsible leadership. Just at a time when working adults of all ages need an education in order to remain competitive in a challenging job market, both private and public universities throughout the nation are pricing tuition out of their reach. The President was right in putting students first.”

According to a survey by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), college tuition at non-profit, private colleges increased by 6% annually during the decade leading up to the economic downturn. Despite the nation’s economic woes, college tuition will again rise 4.6% in 2012.

Hartley stated “As President of Anaheim University, I would like to challenge presidents of accredited universities throughout the United States to follow Anaheim University’s commitment to decrease tuition by 50% by the year 2020.”

Joni Finney, National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education Vice-President, said, “Now is the time to think about doing business in unusual ways”. According to a Time Magazine article, Finney advocates for some lesser-used options for reducing costs, including cutting non-effective programs, using technology more effectively, streamlining curricula so students don’t graduate with more credits than they need, upping the number of hours faculty teach, making better use of evenings, weekends and summers, and offering three-year undergraduate degree programs to well-prepared students.

Anaheim University President Hartley has his own take on the matter, “It’s not about making temporary cutbacks. Being efficient doesn’t mean giving students less of what we used to give them in order to decrease costs. Efficiency is about being innovative in finding new ways to give the students more, while at the same time working towards reducing tuition. We have been able to reduce tuition, while improving the educational experience for the learner. Our goal is to make education accessible to students around the world, and through the use of state-of-the-art technologies and expert faculty, create an online face-to-face learning experience that surpasses the regional classroom experience to which we have become accustomed. As educators, we should look around at other fields such as science, technology, and medicine, and recognize the great advances that have been made in these fields over the past 100 years. Universities must strive to make the same level of advancement in our approach to higher education.”

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Created: 30 January 2012

Anaheim University's Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) faculty now includes five past presidents of the TESOL International Association, the world's largest language teaching association. These professors include Graduate School of Education Dean Dr. David Nunan and TESOL Professors Dr. Kathleen Bailey, Dr. Denise Murray, Dr. MaryAnn Christison and Dr. Jun Liu.

David Nunan, Ph.D

Dr. David Nunan is Past President of TESOL, the world's largest language teaching organization and the world's leading textbook series author. David Nunan, Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Anaheim University, is the founding Dean of the Anaheim University Graduate School of Education and served as President of Anaheim University from 2006 to 2008. Dr. Nunan is a distinguished linguist and best-selling author of English Language Teaching textbooks for Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Thomson Learning. In 2000, David Nunan served as President of TESOL, the world's largest language teaching association, and was the first person to serve as President from outside North America. David Nunan has been involved in the teaching of graduate programs for such prestigious institutions as the University of Hong Kong, Columbia University, the University of Hawaii, Monterey Institute for International Studies, and many more. In 2002 Dr. Nunan received a congressional citation from the United States House of Representatives for his services to English language education through his pioneering work in online education at Anaheim University. In 2003 he was ranked the 7th most influential Australian in Asia by Business Review Weekly, and in 2005 he was named one of the top "50 Australians who Matter". David Nunan was invited by the Australian Prime Minister to attend a summit in Sydney Australia in December 1996 as one of the Leading 100 Global Australians.

Kathleen Bailey, Ph.D.

Dr. Kathleen M. Bailey, a Past President of TESOL (1998-1999) and International Research Foundation for English Language Education Chair (TIRF), received her M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language (1976) and her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics (1982) from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). Dr. Bailey is Professor of TESOL in Anaheim University's Graduate School of Education. She also works full-time as a professor of Applied Linguistics at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. She was the Director of the TESOL M.A. Program there for six years and the Director of the Intensive English as a Second Language Program for three years. In addition, she was instrumental in developing the Monterey Institute's Certificate in Language Program Administration. She is a recipient of the Allen Griffin Award for Excellence in Post-secondary Teaching on the Monterey Peninsula, the Monterey Institute's Teaching Excellence Award 2006 and the James E. Alatis Award for service to TESOL 2007. Dr. Bailey has worked with language teachers in Japan, Korea, Mexico, Italy, Spain, Uruguay, Poland, Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, Trinidad, Czechoslovakia, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, and the United States. From 1992 to 1995 she was a member of the TESOL Executive Board and the USIA English Teaching Advisory Panel. She is a member of the editorial boards of IRAL, Language Teaching Research, the Asian Journal of English Language Teaching, Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, and the Modern Language Journal. She taught in TESOL Summer Institutes at Georgetown, Northern Arizona, San Francisco State, Michigan State, and Iowa State Universities, as well as St. Michael's College, and directed the 1986 program at the University of Hawaii. In 1996-97 she taught EFL in the English Language Teaching Unit at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Bailey's research interests include teacher education and development, second language acquisition, language testing, classroom research, research methodology, and sociolinguistics. She has co-edited five books: (1) Foreign Teaching Assistants in U.S. Universities, (2) Second Language Acquisition Studies: Series in Second Language Research, (3) New Ways in Teaching Speaking, (4) the proceedings of the 1986 Language Teaching Research Colloquium, and (5) Voices from the Language Classroom. She is the co-author (with Dick Allwright) of Focus on the Language Classroom: An Introduction to Classroom Research for Language Teachers (Cambridge University Press). Two of her books, Learning About Language Assessment: Dilemmas, Decisions and Directions and Pursuing Professional Development: The Self as Source (co-authored with Andy Curtis and David Nunan), were published by Heinle and Heinle. Her most recent books are Practical English Language Teaching: Speaking (McGraw-Hill) and Language Teacher Supervision: A Case-based Approach (Cambridge University Press).

Denise Murray, Ph.D.

Dr. Denise Murray served as President of TESOL from 1996-1997 and on the Board of Directors of TESOL for 7 years. TESOL Professor at Anaheim University, Prof. Murray is Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University, Australia, and at San José State University, California. She was Executive Director of the AMEP Research Centre and of the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research (NCELTR) at Macquarie University from 2000 to 2006. Prior to her appointment at Macquarie, she was founding Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Language Development at San José State University for 9 years. Her research centers around computer-assisted language learning; cross-cultural literacy; use of L1 in the second language classroom; intersection of language, society and technology; settlement of adult immigrants; language education policy; and leadership in language education. She has published her work in 17 books and more than 100 articles in professional journals, as book chapters, or conference proceedings. She edited two volumes in 2008: Planning change; Changing plans: Innovations in second language teaching (University of Michigan Press) and Leadership in English language education: Theoretical foundations and practical skills for changing times (Routledge). The leadership volume was co-edited with M.A. Christison. In 2011 she and M.A. Christison co-authored two volumes on teacher education: What English language teachers need to know I: Understanding learning and What English language teachers need to know I I: Facilitating learning(Routledge).

MaryAnn Christison,Ph.D.

A past President of TESOL (1997-1998), Dr. MaryAnn Christison serves on the Board of Trustees for The International Research Foundation (TIRF). Holding a Ph.D. in English/Linguistics from the University of Utah, Dr. Christison has been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in applied linguistics for over 30 years. She is the author of over 80 refereed articles in journals on language teaching and second language research and 18 books including Leadership in English Language Education: Theoretical foundations and practical skills for changing times (with D. E. Murray), A Handbook for Language Program Administrators (2nd Edition) (with F. L. Stoller), What language teachers need to know: Understanding learning (with D. E. Murray), What language teachers need to know: Facilitating learning (with D. E. Murray), Multiple intelligences and language learning, and Learning to teach languages. She has been a classroom teacher for 38 years, teaching in U.S. K-12, adult education, and university contexts. She has developed many multi-media projects, and online ESL Endorsement program, and four online courses for language teachers. Christison has been a teacher educator for over 20 years, working with teachers in the U.S. and in over 30 different countries. Her current research interests are in leadership, second language teacher development, and language and the brain.

Jun Liu, Ph.D.

A past President of TESOL (2006-2007), Dr. Jun Liu is currently TESOL Representative in China and on the Board of Trustees of TIRF (The International Research Foundation for English Language Education. Dr. Liu is also Vice President of International Society of Chinese Language Teaching (ISCLT) and senior advisor for Office of Chinese Language International (Hanban) in Beijing, China. Dr. Jun Liu is a TESOL Professor at Anaheim University and Associate Provost for International Initiatives at Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA. Prior to this position, he has served as Professor and Head in the Department of English and Director of Confucius Institute at the University of Arizona between 2007 and 2011. His research interests include curriculum and standards development and syllabus design, teacher education, classroom-based second language learning and teaching, and second language reading and writing. He has published in TESOL Quarterly, ELT Journal, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, Asian Journal of English Language Teaching, Language and Intercultural Communication, and Educational Research Quarterly, among others. He is the author of numerous books including Teaching English in China: New Perspectives, Approaches and Standards (The Continuum Publishing 2007), Asian students’ classroom communication patterns in US universities (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001) and Peer Response in Second Language Writing Classrooms (University of Michigan Press, 2002 co-authored). He is also co-editor of Michigan Series on Teaching Multilingual Writers.