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Micro-Credentials and Their Strategic Role in the Higher Ed Enterprise

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When:

Monday, November 16th at 3:00 p.m. ET

Presented By: 

André Zampaulo, Ph.D., Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures, Saint Louis University

About This Webinar:

In this webinar, André Zampaulo will share the methods and approaches that the Department of Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures at Saint Louis University has adopted to create both language and interdisciplinary micro-credentials, so as to meet the evolving needs and interests of traditional and non-traditional students and to help boost enrollment in undergraduate courses. Data from the past two and a half years suggest that stackable micro-credentials also play a pivotal role in enhancing minor and major programs when built strategically within the constraints of a university ecosystem.

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Get To Know Our Speaker

André Zampaulo, Ph.D.

André Zampaulo, Ph.D.

Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures, Saint Louis University

André Zampaulo (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) is a Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures at Saint Louis University (SLU).

As Department Chair, he leads 20 faculty members and supervises over 15 academic programs, with nearly 500 students pursuing majors, minors, and microcredentials. In addition to managing the department’s fiscal operations through two cost centers, he is responsible for evaluating faculty annually, overseeing tenure and promotion cases, building annual course schedules, and providing data-driven approaches to curriculum development and student recruitment and retention to ensure continued excellence and sustainable growth.

As Faculty, his current research explores the role of phonetic and probabilistic information in the shaping of sound patterns—both diachronically and synchronically—and its implications for issues in phonological theory and sound change. He is the author of A History of the Portuguese Language (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), Palatal Sound Change in the Romance Languages: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2019), and Os Sons do Português: Uma Introdução à Fonética e à Pronúncia da Língua Portuguesa (Routledge, 2019). He is also the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Portuguese Phonology (Routledge, 2025). He regularly teaches courses in linguistics, such as introduction to linguistics, forensic linguistics, and language change and evolution.