Maria E. Franquiz, an assistant professor of education at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been elected chair of the Nominating Committee of the Conference on English Education.
CEE is a constituent group for teacher educators that is part of the National Council of Teachers of English.
Each year, members of CEE elect educators to positions on the nominating committee. The person receiving the most votes is named committee chair. Committee members help to choose candidates for CEE posts and the following year's nominating committee.
Franquiz received a first place award in the National Association of Bilingual Educators Outstanding Dissertation Competition in 1997, a National Academy of Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1998 and a CU-Boulder Faculty Equity and Excellence Award in 1999.
CEE provides a forum for sharing ideas on inservice teacher education in English. More than 2,700 teacher educators, English language arts supervisors, curriculum developers, English department heads and classroom teachers are members.