“ It seems that we are confronted with doom and gloom news regarding declining language enrollments and the elimination of language programs and departments in the United States on a regular basis. What can language educators, individually and collectively, do to not merely survive but thrive in this environment? Dr. Kronenberg’s keynote provides an overview of the current situation and outlines several enrollment and retention strategies that can help us not only defy but perhaps even reverse negative enrollments trends in language programs in the U.S. ”

– Dr. Felix Kronenberg, Director of the Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA) and an Associate Professor of German in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University. He is the PI and founding Director of the National Less Commonly Taught Languages Resource Center (NLRC), funded by a Title VI Grant by the U.S. Department of Education, and Co-PI on the 2.5 million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation LCTL and Indigenous Languages Partnership Grant.

To know more about Dr. Felix Kronenberg, you may visit the website:

http://felixkronenberg.com/