Bruce Goebel’s article, “What’s So Funny about Social Justice?” was published in English Journal. The article focuses specifically on breaking down stereotypes of Muslims and people of Middle Eastern descent and is a direct response to anti-Muslim rhetoric of the Trump administration. Over the past year, he’s collaborated with Jennifer Green and Beth Dillard from the ELL program in creating an English major with a combined ELL/Bilingual Education emphasis. Currently there is no ELL “major” which means the ELL program is an “add on” that takes an additional year. This major is designed to allow a student interested in being an ELL teacher to complete GURs, the English major, and the Secondary Education program in four years rather than five. It should also make ELL and Bilingual Education more visible at Western.
