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Download full textZwick, Peter R. – 1973
This final report announces the completion of a project, the purpose of which was to develop in coded machine retrievable form, a biographical data archive on the Soviet political elite, and in addition, to gather data on socio-economic and political factors in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The computer processed data is intended to help…
Descriptors: Archives, Area Studies, Biographies, Communism
Bailey, Wilma A. – American Education, 1977
Describes 35 Foreign Language and Area Research awards funded by the U.S. Office of Education. The $900,000 provided for these programs was intended to stimulate and strengthen the teaching of foreign languages and related courses in area studies, including assessment studies, research in teaching methods, and development of curricular materials.…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Federal Aid, Language Instruction, Language Programs
LEGTERS, LYMAN H. – 1966
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE LANGUAGE AND AREA CENTERS PROGRAM UNDER TITLE VI, NATIONAL DEFENSE EDUCATION ACT, CLARIFIES CURRENT NATIONAL EFFORT TO STRENGTHEN UNIVERSITY WORK IN EASTERN EUROPE APART FROM RUSSIA. OVERSHADOWED FOR MANY YEARS BY RUSSIA, THE REMAINDER OF THE REGION IS COMING INTO ITS OWN AS A SUBJECT OF STUDY. THE LANGUAGES ARE INCREASINGLY…
Descriptors: Area Studies, College Language Programs, Federal Programs, German
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1978
A review of Government support of foreign language and area studies programs in institutions of higher education investigated funding, administration, and need. Since 1968, overall enrollments in the study of modern foreign languages have fallen, but enrollments in the "needed" languages, those supported by Title VI of the National…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Educational Administration, Educational Finance, Federal Aid
Bigelow, Donald N.; Legters, Lyman H. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
This bulletin reports on the contributions of the Federal Government to the improvement of language and area studies. This report indicates that two fundamental conclusions have become readily apparent: (1) non-Western studies have received material assistance under the National Defense Education Act of 1958 (NDEA) without which the present high…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Area Studies, Federal Aid, Federal Government
Bigelow, Donald N.; Legters, Lyman H. – 1964
This report documents a broad category of information concerning the first five years of the National Defense Education Act of 1958. Included in the report are the following chapters: (1) concept and practice in non-western area studies, (2) the language and area centers program, (3) impact of the centers program, (4) outlook for the program, and…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Colleges, Cross Cultural Studies, Federal Aid
