Long Elected to Foreign Language Conference Board of Directors

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Associate Professor Sheri Spaine Long, Ph.D., has been elected to the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) board of directors. Her appointment to the 12-member board will become effective February 28 during the organization’s annual meeting in Atlanta.

February 17, 2003

BIRMINGHAM, AL — University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Associate Professor Sheri Spaine Long, Ph.D., has been elected to the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) board of directors. Her appointment to the 12-member board will become effective February 28 during the organization’s annual meeting in Atlanta.

Organized in 1965, SCOLT is one of five regional affiliates of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), the only national organization dedicated to improving and expanding the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction. SCOLT serves 10,000 foreign language teachers and professors in the southern United States.

Long is interim chairwoman of the UAB Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. She also is a member of the ACTFL executive council. Her research interests are Madrid as a literary construct in the contemporary Spanish novel, content-based language instruction and foreign language policy and the profession.

Long earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Spanish from the University of Iowa in 1980 and 1983 respectively, and her doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1990.