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Graduate student represented ������ at the Middle States Commission on Higher Education last month in Philadelphia.

Akano, a master’s student in the , presented “Student-Led Assessment in Linguistics MA Program” during the student poster presentation portion of the event.

The presentation outlined the project Akano and two former classmates (now alumni), Loretta Awuku and Sylvia Page, began last year with , professor of linguistics and program director. The project, , was supported by a .

The students submitted the presentation to MSCHE at Brown’s urging. They previously presented their research at the TESOL/Applied Linguistics/Foreign Languages Conference.

Akano, who plans to study second language development at the doctoral level, says, “Presenting at the MSCHE conference was a wonderful experience for me. It was a rare opportunity to share with educators in higher education how active student involvement in curriculum development is transforming the learning experience of students in the M.A. linguistic studies program at ������.”