Ian Collins

Ian Collins is the Academic Assistant Director of the School of Foreign Languages at Yaşar University in Turkey, where he has been a faculty member since 2009. He has extensive experience as a teacher and administrator, helping develop both the IEP program, as well as the English for Academic Purposes courses and Legal English program at Yaşar. He teaches English for Specific Legal Purposes in the Faculty of Law and is the head of the Yaşar University Unit for Legal Education in English. Ian’s Master’s in Education degree focused on educational change management and accreditation and he has presented and published regularly on language program management and accreditation issues in Turkey and internationally at TESOL and IATEFL conventions. Ian is an experienced, trained Commission on English Language Program Accreditation (CEA) site reviewer and served as a CEA Commissioner between 2019-23, as well as being the 2022 Chair of the CEA Commission. He is currently a CEA specialized contractor. Ian is also a member of the DEDAK Accreditation Board and a trained DEDAK site reviewer. He was the joint coordinator of the TESOL Turkey Leadership & Management Special Interest Group between 2020 and 2022 and is currently the joint coordinator of the TESOL Turkey Quality in English Language Teaching Special Interest Group. He is also the co-author of “The Common Law English Language Workbook: A Resource for Students Studying English-medium Law Degrees”, published by the University of Michigan Press.