Welcome back! We hope you all had a wonderful, restful Summer break, and are refreshed for the new semester.
This semester, the LCLC welcomes two new RAs: Martha (PRLS) and Will (French), joining continuing RAs Patrick (Germanic Studies) and Sam (HIP). Our fab Program Assistant Cheyenne will be collaborating with a new/returning PA, Katerina (UIC MA TESOL 2010!).
HUGE thanks to Brian Zdancewicz (PRLS, Russian) for his 8 years at the LCLC as graduate student and as Program Assistant. His thoughtful and meticulous work with all things administrative was matched by his generous and supportive interactions with LCLC colleagues and with hundreds! of peer tutors. Wishing Brian all good things—and perhaps a return to the LCLC in the future.
We are looking forward to working with an enthusiastic new and continuing group of peer tutors and language learning assistants (LLAs) in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Spanish!
They are undergrads taking 200+ courses in those languages (including many majors and minors) who offer help to current 101-104 language class students by visiting classrooms as well as offering free drop-in peer tutoring in Grant Hall. We are proud and thankful as ever for our tutors/LLAs and for the wonderful mentor instructors who support them, and we are thrilled as ever to work with you and them this Fall!
We have begun scheduling language and culture events at the LCLC’s Language Oasis in Grant Hall 308. This semester, these include a Portuguese Conversation Hour, so if you know any students who were unable to take Portuguese due to cancellations, you can let them know! Events start in the second week of classes: here is our events schedule to keep up with the latest plans. Email us at lclc@uic.edu to schedule an event yourself!
Coming up soon: the 2026 Fall Involvement Fair will be on September 2nd from 11AM to 3:30PM on the UH Lawn, so please volunteer to show up and tell students about the languages you teach, the programs you lead, and the opportunities you offer!
