HEIS News, March 2025

Published on March 13, 2025
LEADERSHIP UPDATES


Letter from the Chair

Namsook Kim, University at Buffalo (UB), New York, USA

ARTICLES


Empowering International Graduate Students Through a Peer Mentoring Program

Veronika Maliborska, Associate Teaching Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, USA 
Natalya Watson, Associate Teaching Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

Peer mentoring plays a critical role in supporting new international graduate students as they navigate academic expectations and disciplinary discourse. This article examines a structured mentoring model designed for a Global Pathways program that facilitates professional development, academic engagement, and meaningful interpersonal interactions, benefiting both mentors and mentees within a learning environment.

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Call for Submissions

March 13, 2025
The Higher Education Interest Section (HEIS) of TESOL Int’l is now accepting submissions for the next issue of our IS newsletter. HEIS News is seeking articles focused on higher education classroom research and practices.The editor invites submissions relevant in higher education classroom settings, including both universities and community colleges, with a focus on:ESL/EFL pedagogyacademic litera

Letter from the Editors

March 13, 2025
Greetings SRIS,We hope this newsletter finds you well.It may now be trite to begin letters that way, but as this newsletter is compiled in the first half of February, we have no idea what state our sociopolitical TESOL environment will be as this is published in the lead up to our March 2025 TESOL Conference.For our US-based/tethered members of SRIS, you surely have been watching the news in horro