Arlette Ingram Willis, professor of curriculum and instruction, recently was elected a trustee of the Research Foundation for the National Council of Teachers of English.

Trustees serve three-year terms. They judge research proposals received from the field and manage fiscal resources of the foundation.

NCTE (www.ncte.org), with 75,000 individual and institutional members worldwide, is dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels.