June C. D. Carter, professor of Spanish and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence was elected president of the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) at the annual conference on April 11-13, 2013 in Birmingham, Ala.  SCOLT is a 14-state non-profit organization serving world language professionals in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.  The mission of SCOLT is the advancement of modern and classical languages and their literatures and cultures at all levels of instruction.