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Appendix C Selection Criteria and Priorities in Title VI and Fulbright-Hays Programs
Pages 350-359

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From page 350...
... In recent years, ED has used both criteria and priorities to influence grant applications and direct funding toward perceived national priorities. More specifically, ED has included three types of priorities in the RFAs soliciting applications for Title VI grants: • Absolute priority -- applications not meeting the priority will not be considered for funding.
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From page 351...
... Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad 9. Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad The purpose of this regulatory change was to "provide the Secretary with the flexibility to select specific point values from year to year to address current priorities for the programs." As shown in the accompanying tables illustrating competitions for the National Resource Centers, the Language Resource Centers, the Centers for International Business Education and Research, Business and International Education, and International Research and Studies, RFAs both before and after this regulatory change used a variety of priorities to target applications to specific needs.
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From page 352...
... Summer intensive language programs in cooperation with other higher education institutions. Special library projects in cooperation with other higher education institutions.
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From page 353...
... improve teacher training in foreign languages, Linkages with schools of education area, and international studies with an designed to improve teacher emphasis on the LCTLs and areas of the world training in foreign languages, area, where those languages are spoken. and international studies with an Collaboration with other Title VI centers with the emphasis on the LCTLs and areas of objective of increasing the nation's capacity to the world where those languages are train and produce Americans with advanced spoken.
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From page 354...
... 354 INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES TABLE C-2  NRC Criteria and Weights Competition Year 2002 2005 Criteria for Review Criterion Points Criterion Points Program planning and 20 Program planning and 20 budget budget Quality of staff resources 20 Quality of staff resources 15 Impact and evaluation 20 Impact and evaluation 25 Commitment to subject area 10 Commitment to the subject 10 area Strength of library 15 Strength of library 15 Quality of nonlanguage 20 Quality of nonlanguage 20 instructional program instructional program Quality of language 20 Quality of language 20 instructional program instructional program Quality of curriculum design 15 Quality of curriculum design 10 Outreach activities 15 Outreach activities 20 Degree to which priorities 10 Degree to which competitive 10 are served priorities are served TOTAL points possible 165 TOTAL points possible 165
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From page 355...
... Competitive None None None priorities Invitational None None Centers that focus on languages spoken priorities in the following world regions: Africa, Inner Asia, the Middle East, South Asia, or Southeast Asia. Research conducted on new and improved methods for teaching foreign languages, including the use of technology and the dissemination of the research results.
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From page 356...
... CENTERS FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION (CIBER) TABLE C-5  CIBER Application Priorities Competition Year 2001 2005 Absolute priorities None None Competitive priorities None None Invitational priorities None Applications that propose innovative approaches to improving the teaching of foreign languages in a business or professional context, including the LCTLs.
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From page 357...
... . The priority was for applications proposing projects integrated into the curricula of the institution and targeted to the world regions of Central and South Asia, the Middle East, Russia, the independent states of the former Soviet Union, and Africa.
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From page 358...
... Competitive None None None priorities Invitational None Development of specialized Development of instructional priorities materials for use in teaching materials for use by students, the languages of the Islamic teachers, and college faculty nations of the Middle East that focus on Islamic societies and Central Asia. and the languages of those Development of specialized societies.
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From page 359...
... Quality of key personnel 10 2. Quality of key personnel 10   3.
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