The Language Flagship Grants to Institutions of Higher Education

Objective

(1) To establish centers for the teaching of critical languages that enable students to reach or exceed Level 3 in proficiency based on the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scale in African Languages, Arabic, Chinese, Hindi/Urdu, Korean, Persian, and Russian; (2) To develop curricular, institutional, and instructional models for advanced language learning; (3) To test those models; (4) To stimulate institutional support and long term commitment to reforming language learning; and (5) To improve national capacity in critical languages

Who Can Apply

• Interstate Organization
• Nonprofit Organization

The award for this program is made to a nonprofit organization that administers this assistance program on behalf of DoD. The award is typically a cooperative agreement made to administer this CFDA program as well as CFDA # 12.551 (National Security Education Program David L. Boren Scholarships) and CFDA # 12.552 (National Security Education Program David L. Boren Fellowships). The award is reported to USASpending.gov only under this CFDA number since it has the most funding of the three programs.

Who Benefits

• University Higher Education

Any accredited U.S. institution of higher education (defined in 20 U.S.C. 1001 of the Higher Education Act of 1965) is eligible to apply for assistance (subaward) under this program. This includes 2 and 4 year colleges and universities, both public and private. Other organizations, associations, agencies, and foreign institutions may be included in proposals for subawards but may not be receive assistance directly from the administering nonprofit organization. Eligible entities for subawards must be located within the fifty (50) states, the District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia.

Assistance Types

• Grant

Program Contact

g.e.mcdermott.civ@mail.mil
571.256.0756