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CASLS is delighted to be partnering with the College of Arts and Sciences, the UO Language Council, and the Yamada Language Center on Language-learning Innovation for Teaching (LIFT) – an initiative to support and transform language learning at the University of Oregon (UO). Participants are working together towards making the UO a leading example of proficiency-based language education in the Pacific Northwest. The LIFT initiative includes two focus area – (1) transformational classroom practice and (2) measuring proficiency and credentialing opportunities. During the 2018-2019 academic year, twenty-two faculty members from eight departments (Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Literatures, German and Scandinavian, International Studies, Linguistics, Religious Studies, Romance Languages, and Russian, Eastern Europe, and Eurasian) engaged in a tailored professional development experience focused on fifteen different topics to be implemented in lower-division courses. In addition, 1100 language students participated in proficiency testing at the end of their course and a working group of ten met to explore credentialing possibilities. LIFT efforts will continue into the 2019-2020 academic year. CASLS looks forward to continuing this collaboration across campus.