Annie R. Abbott

UIUC Campus Committees

Service Learning Task Force. Composed by the Vice Chancellor for Public Engagement and Vice Provost for International Affairs. 2015.

Office of Public Engagement, grant reviewer. 2014.

Information Technology Governance Extension & Outreach Committee, Chair. May 2012 - May 2015.

Information Technology Governance Executive Committee. May 2012 - May 2014.

Entrepreneurship Roundtable. 2010-17.

University Fulbright Interview Committee. 2010-11, 2011-12 Committee Chair, 2012-13.

Campus Awards for Excellence in Public Engagement (CAEPE) committee. 2006.

V. Dale Cozad Business Plan Competition. Judge, Social Division. 2006-07.

Women and Gender from Global Perspectives, Executive Committee. 2010-2014.

LAS Committees

Foreign Language Teacher Education Review Committee, 2016-17

LAS Online Advisory Board, 2016-17

LAS Honors Council, 2016-17

ATLAS Review Task Force, member. Spring 2015.

LAS Assistant/Associate Honors Director Search Committee, Summer 2013.

LAS Open House Planning Team for 2013-14.

LAS Online. 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13.

LAS Individual Plan of Study (IPS) Committee. 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13.'

LAS 101 

School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Committees

Strategic Planning for School: Co-leader of the working group on "Service and Public Engagement" 

AdHoc Committee on Majors and Minors, 2012-13

Search Committees, various Academic Professional positions

Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese

2012-13

Study Abroad Committee, Chair Fall 2012

Curriculum Committee

• Curriculum Self-Study AdHoc Committee, Chair Fall 2012
• Curriculum Assessment AdHoc Committee, Chair Spring 2012

Undergraduate Awards

Non-departmental Awards for Excellence

Search committees (various), Chair/member

Past departmental service

Faculty Committees. Study Abroad, Undergraduate Curriculum, Undergraduate Awards, Non-departmental Awards for Excellence.

Study Abroad Officer.  Coordinate departmental guidelines with study abroad Spanish courses from all programs.

• Conducted site visits at Insituto San Joaquín de Flores in Costa Rica.
• Helped introduce community-based learning curriculum into the oral Spanish course.

Barcelona Year Abroad Program, Advisor and Campus Liaison Officer. 2004-2006.

Elected Representative of Non-Tenure Track SIP Faculty. 2004-05

Spanish Honors Advisor. Inform undergraduate students of honors possibilities; place interested students with Professors to write honors thesis; manage the James Scholar Learning Agreements. 2001-2006. Assistant, 2000-01

Co-Director of Sigma Delta Pi, the Spanish Honor Society.2 001-2006

Service to the Profession

CIBER Business Language Conference Committee, 2014

Journal Reviewer

Foreign Language Annals

Hispania

Spanish in Context

Community Service

East Central Illinois Refugee Mutual Assistance Center, Board Member. 

• Secured a grant from State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Award and Youth Service America.  In a national competition, only 100 grants were funded.  2008. 

Latino Partnership of Greater Champaign County, Illinois

Bailey Scholarship Reader for the University YMCA. 2011, 2012, 2016.