English Language Institute
2002Newsletter
From the director's desk . .
  ELI joins CHEP  
  Scholarships for Peace  
  Scholarship designated for Central American students  
  Conditional Admissions Program provides linguistic and legal bridge  
  Congratulations to CAP graduates  
  Federal grant partnership with U.S. and Ecuador law schools continues  
  ELI trains Ukrainian legal and business professionals  
  American Law and Legal Institute  
  Special programs  
  PreMBA program  
  New class: Broadway Musicals  
  Sewin' at Shoin  
  Corporate tutoring  
  Evening program steams ahead  
  Profiles  
  Classroom notes  
  A typical day in the tutoring center  
  ELI founder to retire  
  Professional activities  
  Graduation 2002: as good as it gets  
  Two countries, maybe more, under one roof  
  New faces in the Christina School District ESL program  
  Evaluation of the Christina School District bilingual program  
  Personnel notes  
  In memoriam  
  Greetings to our alumni  
  Alumni news  

Conditional Admissions Program provides linguistic and legal bridge

For Lydia Liu, 20, and Denise Shi, 22, the opportunity to study at ELI was a timely solution to a problem spawned in the aftermath of September 11.

The pair had left China to study in Switzerland three years ago. Both were planning to transfer to the University of Delaware's Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management program from the Swiss School of Hotel and Tourism Management in Chur, Switzerland. New, unexpected regulations meant that to get a student visa they needed to first prove their English competence. That meant passing the TOEFL, something neither one was then prepared to do.

Lydia Liu and Denise Shi were admitted to the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management after completing ELI classes through the Conditional Admissions Program.
Lydia Liu and Denise Shi

Fortunately, UD's Conditional Admissions Program (CAP) provided a solution. Under CAP, the two - who were otherwise academically admissible - could be admitted provisionally to the university, study at ELI and, with successful completion of the Level VI English for Academic Purposes class, satisfy the language requirement to study at UD.

Shi arrived in January and Liu followed one month later. Both found ELI classes rewarding. "I especially improved my writing," said Liu. Shi concurs.

"I can feel by myself it's a big progress."

Now studying in the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management program, both intend to return to China to work.

"In most four- and five-star hotels, the managers are foreign," said Shi. "We really need some native workers. I think it's a good future for us."