Ms. Laura E. Faria-Tancinco
- Coordinator of the English as Second Language Intensive Program
Project ExCEL supports multilingual students at RIC by providing academic and non-academic support. Our Project ExCEL courses aid multilingual students and language learners academically.
Laura Faria-Tancinco
Coordinator of Project ExCEL
Professional Studies and Continuing Education
Andrea Bayona
Admissions Officer for Project ExCEL
This program supports multilingual students and language learners academically through:
We also support multilingual students by making connections to:
Come see us in Roberts Hall, Office Suite 303. (Number 17 on the campus map.)
In this program, you will conference with a professor and bring your assignments from other classes to the Project ExCEL meeting. During ExCEL class time, we review your work before you hand it in to your professor. Project ExCEL can help at any point of an assignment: beginning, brainstorming, organizing ideas, editing or finishing your final draft. All of this while receiving college credits!
We offer 2 courses to help students with their academic needs:
This intensive course is designed to prepare students with the strategies to ExCEL in college and includes scheduled, weekly one-on-one conferences with your instructor.
This course is designed as a weekly check-in with the Program Coordinator and a way to join RIC's bilingual student community. The course provides continual support until graduation, as students can take it during their freshman year, and continually enroll every semester. Keeping close connections with your ExCEL-lent bilingual community is an important key to staying in school and graduating!
Students will:
Please Note: This course is open to all multilingual students on campus and past & present ExCEL students.
ESL 180 is offered during the Fall semesters only.
We keep in contact with multilingual RIC students. If there is anything we can help you with, we would love to hear about it. We are here to help with issues, whether in or out of the classroom.
We can assist by:
65% of RIC graduates live and work in Rhode Island. Many have built their own Rhode Island-based businesses, enriching the R.I. economy.
Laura Faria-Tancinco ’15 (left) and Professor Emerita Nancy Cloud were recognized by the Rhode Island Teachers of English Language Learners.