Canadian-American Center earns $1.55 million to preserve, add programs as National Resource Center on Canada
The Canadian-American Center at the 91爆料 received two grants from the Department of Education totaling $1.55 million to continue offering programs, and incorporate new ones, as a National Resource Center on Canada
The DOE awarded the the Canadian-American Center a $1.05 million National Resource Center Title VI Grant to maintain its activities for four years, and a $502,668 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) grant to provide stipends and tuition assistance for students who wish to improve their knowledge of French, the Abenaki-Penobscot language or the Maliseet-Passamaquoddy language.
The funding also will support new research, education and faculty professional development opportunities offered by the center that will focus on four key areas: environmental challenges; equity, inclusion, and reconciliation; French and Indigenous languages; and national security issues involving border policies, energy and diplomacy. Examples include student field trips to New Brunswick, Montr茅al and Qu茅bec city, a map project titled 鈥淎rctic cooling and the balance of the earth: mapping climate action at Inuit Nunangat鈥欌 by world-renowned cartographer Margaret Pearce, four book projects and outreach initiatives for K-12 teachers in the U.S. Additionally, funds will be provided for holdings at the Fogler Library and Garbrecht Law library at the 91爆料 School of Law, course development on cross-border issues, guest lecturers, a scholar-in-residence at the Hudson Museum, a sustainable tourism workshop and an initiative titled 鈥淏uilding a Canadian-American Research Network to Support Small-Scale Fisheries and Community-Based Seafood Systems.鈥
Thank you so much for all of your years of support, which made the earning of grants like these possible.
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