Learn from our experienced faculty who hold graduate degrees in linguistics and/or language teaching and are native English speakers. IEP students receive individual attention from a dedicated and caring faculty and staff.
If you have any questions, contact us at iep@wcu.edu.
Hilary Ruff
Admissions Specialist
hruff@wcu.edu
+1 828.227.4933
Hilary has lived in the local area for over a decade and attended Western Carolina University as both an undergraduate and a graduate student.
In addition to admissions, Hilary is responsible for pre-arrival IEP student support.
She maintains the program's student records, works with WCU International Programs
and Services' agent partners, runs the IEP's social media accounts, and does most
of the IEP's photography/videography.
Education:
B.F.A. in Studio Art (Photography), M.A. coursework in American History (Public History)
Studied art theory and the French language for a year in Rennes, France.
Lisa Mingus
IEP Instructor
Lisa has been teaching English for over 25 years, with a focus on academic ESL instruction.
During 1990-91, she was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Wurzburg, Germany and returned to teach English at the University of Bamberg, Germany in 1998-99. Before moving back to western North Carolina in 2014, she was the senior instructor at ELS Language Center in Charlotte, NC, instructor of composition and German courses at Central Piedmont Community College, and business English/German instructor at The Language Academy of the Carolinas.
Grant Wolf
IEP Instructor
Grant has been teaching English to students from all over the world for more than
30 years, including 26 years at the English Language Institute of the University of
Delaware, where he developed several new courses, conducted teacher-training workshops,
coordinated special programs, and taught graduate classes in methods of teaching ESL/EFL. He has also taught English
as a foreign language in Costa Rica, Honduras, and Japan, and done teacher training
in South Korea and China.
Grant specializes in teaching English as a language for international communication
and has written a textbook, Globally Speaking: English Communication for World Citizens.