Status of National Defense Education Act (NDEA) Title VI Funding

1973 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-23
Keyword(s):  
National Defense ◽  
National Defense Education Act ◽  
Title Vi ◽  
Education Act

The Foreign Language Program in 1964

PMLA ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-32
Author(s):  
Donald D. Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Language Program ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
National Defense Education Act ◽  
Title Vi ◽  
Education Act

Our major activities this year, as in each of the past five years, have been undertaken either with foundation support or through contracts with the United States Office of Education under the National Defense Education Act. In February John Harmon became Director of the Materials Center, changing places with Glen Willbern, who became Director of Research. Under Mr. Willbern's direction and through a government contract we have just completed a survey of modern-foreign-language enrollments in junior and senior colleges as of the fall of 1963. We are currently negotiating several contracts through Title VI of the National Defense Education Act. The first is to gather statistics on offerings and enrollments in all foreign languages in public and non-public secondary schools. The second is to make a survey of current college enrollments in all foreign languages. Since gathering statistics on the classical languages is not a justifiable expenditure of national defense funds, the Modern Language Association will pay out of its own funds the proportion of the total cost needed to gather the facts on Latin and Greek in schools and colleges.

Issues in African Academic Language Programming in the U.S.

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
David J. Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
National Level ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Language Programs ◽  
Higher Education Act ◽  
National Defense Education Act ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
Title Vi ◽  
The Us ◽  
Education Act

Support for academic African language programs (ALPs) in the US began at the national level with the National Defense Education Act of 1958 (renamed the Higher Education Act of 1965). The goal of this legislation was to establish a world-wide language and area studies knowledge base that could be called upon in the event of conflict, but in addition it has provided generations of students a wealth of knowledge about the less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) and the communities where they are spoken. Although the Africa region’s share of this support has hovered around 12%, its effect has been substantial. For example, based on a world-wide listing of Africanist linguists, approximately half of these specialists live in Africa, with the remainder being equally divided between the countries of Europe and the US, a remarkable fact given that the US has no colonial legacy in Africa. Title VI of this legislation supports a set of National Resource Centers (NRCs) that promote language and area study of a specific region including Africa.

African-Language Study in the 21st Century: Expansion through Collaboration and Technology

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-49
Author(s):  
Sandra Sanneh ◽  
Alwiya S. Omar
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
African Language ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Or Education ◽  
African Languages ◽  
National Defense Education Act ◽  
Title Vi ◽  
Education Act ◽  
National Resource

The formal study of African languages in U.S. universities began with the passage of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) in 1958. Title VI of that act supported the establishment of “centers for the teaching of any modern foreign language [that is] needed by the federal government or by business, industry or education” and for which “adequate instruction is not readily available in the United States.” The act also authorized fellowships for those undergoing advanced training in these languages. Over the next two decades, a small number of universities successfully competed for the federal funding from NDEA and subsequent acts that established Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships and later Title VI National Resource Centers (NRCs) for African studies.

The National Defense Education Act and Exceptional Children

1965 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 172-173
Author(s):  
Morvin A. Wirtz
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Exceptional Children ◽  
National Defense Education Act ◽  
Title Iii ◽  
Education Act

Two recent amendments to The National Defense Education Act of 1958 enlarged its scope to include the education of exceptional children. The new Title XI allows colleges and universities to plan institutes in critical subjects for teachers of exceptional children. The amended Title III provides for instructional materials to be used for all school children, including the exceptional. This paper briefly presents the Titles' provisions and indicates those who would be eligible.

NDEA support for improved mathematics instruction

1960 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 445-447
Author(s):  
Milton W. Beckmann
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
National Defense ◽  
National Defense Education Act ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Education Act

The National Defense Education Act offers financial assistance for the purchase of teaching aids and the employment of state supervisors of mathematics.

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