Dawn Higgins

Dawn Higgins is an academic advisor at NHTI and works directly with English Language Learners at NHTI. Instructing and advising second language adults in higher education for 19 years, she is also a certified K-12 ESOL teacher in the State of NH and linguistics instructor for NHTI’s post-bac ESOL Teacher Education Conversion Program. Dawn is the co-director of the ESOL Teacher Education Conversion Program. The populations she serves at NHTI currently are New Americans and other new immigrants’ representative of more than 50 native languages and countries of origin. Dawn earned her undergraduate degree in French and English and her Master’s degree in English Literature from the University of New Hampshire and the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, France.