AA to BA Partnership

Through programmatic initiatives and collaborative endeavors with partners and stakeholders, the AA to BA work team seeks to help foster quality interpreter education programs through enhanced communication, standards of practice, innovative curriculum models, and accreditation. The goals of the AA to BA Work Team are to forge stronger links between two year and four year Interpreter Education Programs, to elucidate for the field effective models of AA/BA partnerships that lead to successful interpreter education program design, and to establish and promote language standards and programmatic accreditation as critical underpinnings for educational success. This year, the AA to BA work team is working hard to obtain a "snapshot" of the current state of two-year and four-year interpreter education programs. To this end, the work team has sponsored face to face intensive meetings with each group. Program directors representing four year institutions met at the CIT Conference in San Diego, while program directors from two year institutions met in Denver for a two day Summit. By year's end, the work team hopes to publish a comprehensive report of this year's findings.