Please request the Fall FLAND NEWS for a detailed description of the award recipient's nomination and service to foreign language education.

The Pro Lingua Award acknowledges an individual outside the field of foreign language education who has fostered the study of foreign languages in our state and/or in our nation and who has been outstanding in his/her support for languages and global education.

Pro Lingua Award Committee and Nomination Guidlines:

• The FLAND President appoints the Pro Lingua Award Committee.
• The Past President of FLAND is the committee chair.
• The award will be a framed certificate and does not have to be awarded every year, nor is it limited to one person per year.
• The nomination must be in writing and submitted to the Chairperson by February 15.
• The nominee may be someone outside the field of education.
• The candidate must have actively promoted foreign language study and/or international exchanges and understanding at the local, state, or national level.
• The nomination must include a description of the candidate's contributions, activities, service and leadership which have led to this award.
• The nomination must also include letters of reference from at least three people who can testify that the candidate has demonstrated support for language and global education.
• Four (4) copies of each nomination should be sent to the Committee Chair.
• The 2008 Committee Chair is:

  Jeanne Rodriguez
  Ben Franklin Middle School
  1420 N 8th St.
  Fargo, ND 58102

   

• Previous Pro Lingua Award Recipients:

  2004 Pro Lingua Award: Celia Sattler, Bismarck, North Dakota