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National Resource Centers

The Department of Education's National Resource Center program provides grants to institutions of higher education or consortia of institutions of higher education to establish, strengthen, and operate comprehensive and undergraduate language and area/international studies centers that will be national resources for:

  • Teaching of any modern foreign language;
  • Instruction in fields needed to provide full understanding of areas, regions, or countries in which the language is commonly used;
  • Research and training in international studies;
  • Language aspects of professional and other fields of study; and
  • Instruction and research on issue in world affairs.

Title VI National Resource Centers for South Asian Studies include:

Columbia University
Cornell-Syracuse University
North Carolina Consortium
University of California - Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Pennsyvania
University of Texas - Austin
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin - Madison