CILAS NEWS

CILAS Designated National Resource Center

We are pleased to announce that the San Diego Consortium for Latin American Studies has again been designated a National Resource Center (NRC) in Latin American Studies by the U.S. Department of Education (USDE). The prestigious award provides over $1 million funding for the four-year period beginning in Fall 2006.

The consortium is a partnership between the Latin American Studies Center at San Diego State University (SDSU) and the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (CILAS) at UC San Diego.

Title VI grants are competitively awarded for research and language training on specific world regions. Title VI grant funds are allocated to expand curricular offerings, host visiting professors, conduct K-12 teacher training and other outreach programs, organize public conferences among other activities. Additionally the grant funds fellowships for Foreign Language and Area Study (FLAS) for the academic year as well as summer language study fellowships.

During the previous grant cycle, among the many outreach events, including international conferences and lectures, CILAS also earmarked funds to bring three Latin American Visiting Professors and began teaching Zapotec, an indigenous language of Southern Mexico.

CILAS would like to thank the Latin Americanist faculty for their willingness to contribute to the program.

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Latin American Studies encourages their majors and minors to study abroad. Students will find programs in which to improve their Spanish language skills or integrate themselves into one of the many different cultures and countries in Latin America through the University of California′s Education Abroad Program (EAP) or UCSD′s Opportunities Abroad Program (OAP).

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