OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AND PROGRAMS
AWARDED EMERITUS STATUS
Matthew Britschgi — Office of International Studies and Programs MA, Teaching English as a Second Language, University of Idaho
Matthew Britschgi first began teaching at Central Washington University in September 1997, when he joined the University of English as a Second Language (UESL) program faculty. Prior to that, he had taught in the U.S. at Southern Oregon University and later abroad, serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand for two years, followed by five years in Hungary where he trained English language teachers as a US Information Agency EFL Fellow. After eight years with the UESL program, he and his family returned to Hungary where they lived for ten years, but during that time Matthew continued to teach for UESL every summer until eventually returning to CWU full time in 2015. Matthew served as UESL’s curriculum coordinator for three years until taking over as program director in 2018.
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