CELCIS welcome reception
for new director Friday

The campus community is invited to a welcome reception for CELCIS Director Diana Vreeland hosted by Haenicke Institute Dean Dr. Donald McCloud from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2 in the CELCIS office on the garden level of Ellsworth Hall (entrance on east side of building).

Vreeland received her education at Central Michigan University, where she received a master of arts degree with a concentration in Teaching English as a Second Language and a bachelor of science degree with Secondary Teaching Certification majoring in English. 

Vreeland came to Western's CELCIS program from Saginaw Valley State University, where she served as director of the ESL program since 2007 and as assistant director for one year prior to assuming the director position. Vreeland brings 20-plus years of experience in teaching ESL and in administration of international education at Michigan Technological University, Central Michigan University and City University in the Slovak Republic.  She has been an instructor of English for speakers of non-English languages at various institutions for more than 10 years. She speaks Slovak at an intermediate level and Spanish and French at beginning levels.  She has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Canada and Mexico, and has also traveled in Central and South American, Taiwan and Korea.