Prof. Heidi Byrnes receives the 2012 ACTFL/Wilga Rivers Award for Leadership in Foreign Language Education
The Wilga Rivers Award honors the memory of the internationally renowned scholar and author, and one of the first women to be appointed to a full Professorship at Harvard University. It recognizes a member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in higher education whose excellence in teaching and in service to the school, community, and state, as well as to state, regional, and national professional organizations is deemed extraordinary. The awards ceremony will be at the ACTFL Annual Convention in Philadelphia November 16, 2012.
