Mission Statement

Updated: 03/22/2012

The mission of International Educational Center (IEC) is to provide the highest quality instruction in English as a Second Language. In pursuit of this, IEC serves international and permanent resident students seeking to enhance language skills in order to successfully communicate in the cultural context of the United States, further education or to achieve career goals in a rapidly changing global market. Using a student-centered communicative approach and interactive methods of instruction, the IEC curriculum gradually builds student competence in four language skills: listening, reading, speaking, and writing. IEC extends programming to include the analysis of authentic reading selections, thereby enhancing student appreciation for American culture and encouraging a deepening of critical thinking skills and more adept communication. To accomplish its mission the International Educational Center offers a multilevel ESL Program, Academic Writing, and American Short Stories and Poetry. The center promotes diversity and is committed to understanding, thus improving, student learning process. Through on-going assessment of learning outcomes by experienced, passionate, and culturally sensitive instructors we are dedicated to upholding the highest institutional and instructional standards. The center promotes diversity and is committed to understanding, thus improving, student learning process.