NRC role expanded
The role of the NRC is expanded to include outreach to K–12 education, four-year and community colleges, business communities, and the general public.
Lambert begins International Education research
Future NFLC founder Richard Lambert conducts research into the nation’s foreign language teaching infrastructure and area studies programs.
Title VI formally established
Originally authorized as part of the National Defense Education Act of 1958, Title VI grants are formally established.
Fulbright-Hays Act passed
The Fulbright-Hays Act for Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange is passed.
Language and area centers established
Nineteen language and area centers are established as precursors to National Resource Centers, which lead to the establishment of programs for language institutes, foreign language fellowships, and international research and studies.
National Defense Education Act passed
The National Defense Education Act is passed by Congress; it includes authorization of Title VI, designed to create foreign language and area studies programs at US universities.
Sputnik Launched
Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, is launched by the Soviet Union on October 1. This launch is the catalyst for the passage of the first National Defense Education Act.
Report of the Task Force on the Preservation of Heritage Language Skills in Maryland
Note from the Chair
The Task Force for the Preservation of Heritage Language Skills in Maryland was established by Governor Martin O’Malley on July 1, 2008, in order to investigate current language preservation efforts and to develop new strategies in preserving world language skills in our State. To our knowledge, this is the first state-sponsored task force on heritage languages in the United States.
National Capacity in Language and Area Studies, Post 9/11
Purpose of the Study
This report is not designed to provide a general evaluation of all Title VI/F-H programs. Rather, the intent here is to lay the foundation of such assessments in the future and to model the application of the GPRA to federal programs that are involved with education and research in general. This will be accomplished by demonstrating just how the EELIAS (Evaluation of Exchange, Language, and International Area Studies) system, developed in 1997, can be used to this end. Therefore, this report comprises the following:
Building the Foreign Language Capacity We Need
There is a critical national requirement for skilled speakers of languages other than English. The need is not new. It has been recognized and documented for more than fifty years in reports of high-level commissions, published analytical studies, and testimony by government and private figures before both houses of Congress, reports in national and local news media, and in a major presidential initiative.