Minoo Varzegar, Ph.D.

BIOGRAPHY    ◊    EDUCATION     ◊    ACADEMIC POSITIONS     ◊    ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

PUBLICATIONS    ◊    PAPERS PRESENTED    ◊     RESEARCH

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED

SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES ORGANIZED AND DIRECTED

TEACHING EXPERIENCES    ◊     ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES    ◊     DISTINCTIONS    ◊    MEMBERSHIPS

Director
Program in American Language Studies
226 Conklin Hall
175 University Avenue
Newark, New Jersey 07102
Phone: (973) 353-5013
Fax: (973) 353-1438
varzegar@aol.com


ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

Director of the Center for Testing and Psychometrics, Ministry of Higher Education, 1975-1977.

Director of the Language Lab, College of Letters and Human Sciences, University of Tehran, 1975-80.

Chair of the English Department of the Evening Classes, University of Tehran, 1975-1983.

Director of Tehran University Language Center (providing EFL services for 28,000 students), 1981-83.

MELAB (Michigan English Language Assessment Battery) Authorized Examiner, University of Michigan, 1990-2000.

Chair of the English Department, University of Tehran, 1983-1997.

President of the Association of the Professors of English, Ministry of Higher Education, 1983-1997.

Head of the Board of Directors of Bayan Institute of Foreign Languages, 1989-1997.

Executive Director of the Persian Cultural Foundation, NJ, 2004-2007.

Director of the Program in American Language Studies/ESL, Rutgers University, August 2007-Present.

MELAB Administrator at PALS Rutgers University, 2008-present.

IELTS Administrator, PALS-IELTS Center, 2009-present