Project Grant T293C050010

This $455,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.223 - Hispanic Serving Institutions Education Grants) aims to address the endangerment of Alaska Native languages, particularly Inupiaq, through the Chukchi Campus Language Learning Workshop. The project will work with partnership organizations and UAF units to preserve and grow indigenous language knowledge, including developing an online Inupiaq pronunciation guide...

The U.S. Department of Education, through its Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) Program (CFDA 84.016), awarded a $107,324 project grant to Governors State University to develop a Mandarin curriculum/course and international business preparation program with enhanced accessibility for undergraduate students. The grant period runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025. This initiative aims to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $449,534 to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to document endangered languages through training and capacity building in diaspora communities. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Producing richly annotated, multipurpose language documentation materials to serve as the foundation for grammatical studies; 2) Conducting targeted studies of...

This Project Grant award of $686,700, funded by the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079), supports an international research and education program focused on documenting and analyzing Creole languages. Over a 5-year period from July 2025 to June 2030, the project will engage six U.S. undergraduate and graduate students annually in 5-week field research trips to Creole-speaking countries. The students will employ advanced linguistic...

The Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition awarded a $699,298 Project Grant under the English Language Acquisition State Grants program (CFDA 84.365) to Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. The grant, titled "BLOOM: BUILDING LANGUAGE AND OPENING OPPORTUNITIES FOR MULTILINGUALISM," will support the college's efforts to improve English language instruction, academic achievement, and educational outcomes for English language learners, including immigrant...

The Federal Project Grant award of $183,619.00 from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (CFDA 84.021) program is funding an initiative led by National Louis University to improve P-12 bilingual education. The project, titled "CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC RESTORATION - IMPROVING P-12 BILINGUAL EDUCATION," aims to enhance modern foreign language and area studies education in the United States through training,...

This $445,543 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The award supports a project titled "LANGDIV: HNDS-R: TALKER-SPECIFIC, LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC, AND LANGUAGE-GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FIRST-LANGUAGE AND SECOND-LANGUAGE SPEECH" at Northwestern University. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) Develop a unique publicly available digital speech resource with...

This $17,882,000 Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs on September 17, 2024, supports the ACCESS program, which aims to address global English language learning needs and improve English teaching capacity worldwide. The purpose of this no-cost amendment is to add a new provision regarding compliance with applicable federal anti-discrimination laws. The funding recipient, Family Health International (FHI 360), is a...

The University of California, Santa Barbara was awarded a $360,506 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition under the English Language Acquisition State Grants program (CFDA 84.365). The grant, titled "Increasing the Recruitment and Retention of Multilingual Teachers through the Language in Society Teaching Apprenticeship (LISTA) Program," will support efforts to recruit and retain multilingual teachers to serve English language...

This $168,099 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) program will support the "Institute in Developing Research and Educational Excellence in Multilingual Education (I-DREEME)" at the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025. The GAANN program provides graduate student fellowships in...