Program Number: 01650
Title: Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language
Program


Sponsor: Office of Postsecondary Education/Department of Education

SYNOPSIS:
Support is provided to strengthen and improve undergraduate
instruction in international studies and foreign languages. Eligible
applicants are institutions of higher education; combinations of
institutions of higher education; partnerships between nonprofit
educational organizations and institutions of higher education; and
public and private, nonprofit agencies and organizations, including
professional and scholarly associations. Approximately thirty awards
will be made for a project period of twenty-four to thirty-six
months.

Deadline(s): 11/04/2002
Established Date: 04/05/1982
Follow-Up Date: 09/01/2003
Review Date: 09/04/2002

Contact: Christine Corey


Address: Intl. Ed. and Graduate Programs Service
1990 K Street, N.W.
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20006-8521
U.S.A.
E-mail: christine.corey@...

Program URL:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2002_register&doci
d=02-22275-filed
Tel: 202-502-7629
Fax:
Deadline Ind: Receipt
Deadline Open: No



Award Type(s): Curriculum Development


Citizenship/Country of Applying Institution:
Any/No Restrictions

Locations Tenable: U.S.A. Citizenship (including U.S. Territories)


Appl Type(s): Colleges/Universities
Educational Organizations/Inst.
Non-Profit
Public Institution
Private Institution/Organization
State/Local Agencies


Target Group(s): NONE
Funding Limit: $78,028 YEAR
Duration: 36 MONTHS
Indirect Costs: Yes
Cost Sharing: Yes
Sponsor Type: Federal


Geo. Restricted: NO RESTRICTIONS

CFDA#: 84.016A

OBJECTIVES:
Support is provided to strengthen and improve undergraduate
instruction in international studies and foreign languages.
Preference will be given to applications that propose educational
projects that include activities focused in the targeted world areas
of Central and South Asia, the Middle East, Russia, the Independent
States of the former Soviet Union, and Africa. These projects should
be integrated into the curricula of the home institutions or
organizations.

ELIGIBILITY
Priority will be given to institutions of higher education or
combinations of institutions of higher education that either require
entering students to have successfully completed at least two years of
secondary school foreign language instruction or require each
graduating student to earn two years of postsecondary credit in a
foreign language or have demonstrated equivalent competence in the
foreign language. It also gives priority to two-year degree granting
institutions that offer two years of postseondary credit in a foreign
language.

FUNDING
Approximately $4,700,000 is available to fund thirty awards ranging
from $40,000 to $130,000 per year, and averaging $78,028 each per
year. Grantees must provide matching funds in either of the following
ways: cash contributions from the private sector equal to one-third
of the total project costs; or a combination of institutional and
non-institutional cash or in-kind contributions equal to one-half of
the total project costs. Projects may be twenty-four months in
duration for single institutions and thirty-six months in duration for
combinations of institutions of higher education and partnerships.
Source: Federal Register (08/30/02) Vol. 67, No. 169, pp. 55825-27.
(tal)

KEYWORDS: Africa
Asia
Middle/Near East
Former Soviet Union
Russia
Education/Instructional Programs
Foreign Languages Education
International Studies Education
Educational Improvement
Student Enrichment
Undergraduate Education


Dr. James H. McDonald, Interim Chair
Department of Anthropology
University of Texas at San Antonio
6900 North Loop 1604 West
San Antonio, TX 78249
Tel: (210) 458-4673
Fax: (210) 458-5728
Net: jmcdonald@...