2006 Chancellor's Excellence Award
Excellence in Faculty Service - Jean W. LeLoup
LeLoup,
who joined the International Communications and Culture Department
in 1993, becomes the third SUNY Cortland faculty member to receive
the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service.
She has been a strong and vital leader in the field of foreign language education who has achieved recognition and respect at the state, national and international levels. In 2001, she received a SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
LeLoup earned her Master of Arts in Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) from Ohio State University, a Master of Education in Counseling from University of Missouri-St. Louis, and a Ph.D. in foreign language education from Ohio State University. After teaching high school Spanish in St. Louis, Mo., for 16 years, she joined SUNY Cortland’s International Communications and Culture Department as an assistant professor. She became a professor in 2003. From 1998-2000, she was acting department chair. In 1995-96, she was a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Spanish at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Permanently certified in both Spanish 7-12 and as a guidance counselor to grades 7-12, LeLoup teaches foreign language methods courses, supervises student teachers and serves as a liaison between junior and senior high schools and the College. Since her arrival at Cortland, she has coordinated adolescence education in Spanish and French. She coordinates both graduate studies in the Department of International Communications and Culture and the Intensive Teacher Institute for Bilingual Education and Bilingual Special Education.
A noted authority in foreign language technology and pedagogy, her published scholarship includes 10 book chapters, 18 articles in juried journals and two technology ancillaries for Holt, Rinehart and Winston Spanish textbooks.
LeLoup has delivered keynote addresses at major conferences in the foreign language field. She has presented numerous workshops on National Standards for Foreign Language Learning, foreign language pedagogy, foreign language technology, foreign language pedagogy and methodology. In addition, she has presented at national and interna-tional conferences.
LeLoup has developed numerous curricular programs for her department, including a Master of Science in Education in Second Language Education, both undergraduate and graduate programs in English as a Second Language (ESL), and a combined Adolescence French and Spanish program that leads to dual NYS certification. She revised all the other teacher education programs during the 2000 NYSED re-regis-try process and was a key member of many teacher education committees related to the national accreditation initiative.
She currently teaches an annual Summer Institute for Spanish Teachers in Belize. Engaging in a SUNY-wide initiative, she is the lead coordinator for the development of several dual diploma ESL programs with Turkey, Poland and Azerbaijan institutions, and devotes considerable time to working jointly on curricula, both hosting international visitors and traveling to their countries. In 2002, LeLoup was appointed as a board member of the Levin Institute in New York City, a SUNY campus fostering international relations.
She is a member of the College’s Study Abroad Committee, its Salamanca Sub-committee, and the Clark Center for International Education.
A Fulbright Scholar to Ecuador in 1986-87, LeLoup is the recipient of numerous New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers Awards for service to the foreign language profession and for her outstanding articles on foreign languages. She received its much-prized President’s Award for outstanding contribution to the profession. In 2000, she won the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Award/Faculty Development Program-Houghton Mifflin Award for Excellence in Foreign Language Instruction Using Technology.
She was awarded two national grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities for “FLTEACH: A Model for Professional Development and Foreign Language Instruction.” The award-winning, interna-tional listserv for teachers of foreign languages provides an invaluable venue for several thousand participants to converse on topics in foreign language teaching.
On campus, she has served as a United University Professions Academic Delegate, as a member of the Center for International Education Council, the Faculty Senate and the Fine Arts and Humanities Subdivisional Personnel Committee.
Within the profession, LeLoup chairs the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages FDP-Houghton Mifflin Awards for Excellence in Foreign Language Instruction Using Technology Committee, and chairs or co-chairs three other statewide foreign language education post-secondary committees. She serves as a scorer for the New York State Teacher Certification Examinations, Spanish Content Specialty Tests. She was a contributing editor to “Teaching with Technology,” a regular column in Learning Languages, the journal of the National Network for Early Language Learning.