WCIU Alumni Journeys Session 5
MARCH 13th 9am PDT
Spotlight on the WCIU TESOL program
with Kitty Barnhouse Purgason
Featured Panelists: Joe McVeigh, John Robertson, Mark Rentz, Sally Eimer, and Kim Macdonald
As we look back through WCIU’s 50 year history and celebrate our Alumni, we want to pay special attention to the importance that the TESOL program played in shaping us as a University. We are excited to welcome Kitty Barnhouse Purgason, our former TESOL professor and the widow of Lee Purgason (a former WCIU Board Member), to highlight this special program. She will be moderating a conversation of WCIU TESOL Alumni as she leads us through this session of our Alumni Journey’s Webinar Series.
Kitty will facilitate a conversation with a group of panelists whose work includes starting an ESL program that led to church growth; high-level administration for international education in U.S. universities; consulting for the U.S. State Department; textbook development; accreditation review; teacher training in the U.S. and around the world; and teaching in elementary schools, community colleges, and universities.
Collectively, the panelists have served around the world in places like Mongolia, China, Japan, Vietnam, UAE, Oman, Iraq, Tanzania, Peru, and many more.
Part of the Alumni Journeys Webinar Series The Office of Advancement & Alumni Relations is pleased to announce the launch of a new webinar series featuring: WCIU Alumni Journeys.
These forums will feature alumni sharing their experiences, challenges, and dreams in settings around the globe. The zoom webinars will be hosted on the second Friday of the month at 9:00am (PDT). Each forum will highlight special themes: caring for our environment; health and wellbeing; church planting and missions; empowering vulnerable women; holistic mission; public policy influencers, entrepreneurial innovations, and community development change makers.
Kitty Barnhouse Purgason
is former professor of TESOL at WCIU and professor emerita of TESOL at Biola University. She has a PhD in Applied Linguistics from UCLA. She has lived, studied, served, or taught in India, Russia, Korea, China, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Mauritania, Indonesia, Kuwait, Oman, Vietnam, Spain, and Tajikistan, She is a three-time Fulbright fellow and a U.S. State Department English Language Specialist. She is the author of Professional Guidelines for Christian English Teachers (William Carey Library)..