{"id":84052,"date":"2018-09-04T15:42:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T01:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=84052"},"modified":"2019-04-05T15:02:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T01:02:49","slug":"5m-international-education-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/04\/5m-international-education-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa earns $5M in grants for excellence in international education"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-students-international.jpg\" alt=\"students studying abroad\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-84117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-students-international.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-students-international-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> has been awarded five Title <abbr title=\"six\">VI<\/abbr> International Education grants from the U.S. Department of Education, keeping the campus among an elite group of American universities with a dominant presence in international studies, especially in the Asia and Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>The five awards, totaling a combined $5 million over a four-year cycle, are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National Resource Center for the Pacific Islands<\/li>\n<li>Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for East Asia<\/li>\n<li>Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for the Pacific Islands<\/li>\n<li>Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Southeast Asia<\/li>\n<li>National Foreign Language Resource Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;These grants recognize our superb programs in languages and area studies with our focus on Asia and the Pacific,&rdquo; said Interim Chancellor <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/chancellor\/about\/\"><strong>David Lassner<\/strong><\/a>. &ldquo;<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa is a nationally and internationally acclaimed leader in these areas, and we play a critical role in connecting <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and the nation with the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Title <abbr title=\"six\">VI<\/abbr> of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was enacted to build foreign language and area studies programs at American universities.<\/p>\n<h2>More on the Title <abbr title=\"six\">VI<\/abbr> grants<\/h2>\n<p>The National Resource Center supports modern foreign language training, teacher training, curriculum development, outreach and library collections.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Language and Area Studies programs fund fellowships for <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa undergraduate and graduate students who are studying modern foreign languages and area studies.<\/p>\n<p>The National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies grants are housed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/spas\/\">School of Pacific and Asian Studies<\/a>, which was established in 1987. School of Pacific and Asian Studies is considered a leader in Pacific and Asian studies nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n<p>The National Foreign Language Resource Center grant was first awarded to <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lll.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature<\/a> when the program was established in 1990 and has been continuously earned since then, making <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa the oldest language resource center in the nation.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8216;s National Foreign Language Resource Center is part of a national network to improve the learning and teaching of foreign languages. It accomplishes this through research; the development of teaching materials, including the use of advanced educational technology; and the training of professional language educators.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa has once again garnered national recognition for its excellence in the fields of Asian and Pacific Islands studies,&rdquo; said School of Pacific and Asian Studies Dean <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/spas\/?page_id=1125\"><strong>R. Anderson Sutton<\/strong><\/a>. &ldquo;Winning these prestigious awards is a great honor, providing essential funding to bolster the study of these critically important world areas that figure so centrally in the educational mission of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Title <abbr title=\"Roman numeral six\">VI<\/abbr> awards from the U.S. Department of Education keep the campus among an elite group of American universities, especially in the Asia and Pacific region. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[163,134,953,258,9],"class_list":["post-84052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-languages-linguistics-and-literature","tag-international","tag-international-education","tag-school-of-pacific-and-asian-studies","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84052"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94179,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84052\/revisions\/94179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}