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From the Director Jeffery Wasserstrom |
Dear Colleagues,
Well, as some of you know, it is that time again – time to apply for National Resource Center status under the Title VI program. For those of you who don’t know about it, this involves gathering as much information as we can about all things East Asia-related going on at I.U., from class enrollments, to faculty and graduate student publications, to course development initiatives, to outreach activities, to guest lecturers, to student organizations. This means that members of the Center’s staff may well be contacting you soon, just to find out as much as possible about what you have been up to lately, and I would be very grateful if you would respond to their queries as quickly as possible.
The proposal-creation process is a complicated one (to say the least) and the competition is always fierce (as there are more good East Asian Studies programs out there than can be funded). Still, the stakes are high enough to make it well worth competing, as Title VI money can fund many good activities and NRC status confers a good deal of prestige. In addition, in the past, the competition took place every three years, but starting now funding will be given in four-year increments, so the stakes this time are 33% greater! We go into the process feeling that East Asian studies at I.U. is on a roll, thanks to both the increasingly robust array of outreach activities in which we are involved and the series of excellent hires that have been made in different departments. Nevertheless, we will need all the help we can get if we are to make our proposal as competitive as it needs to be.
Best wishes for the New Year that has just come (according to the standard Western calendar) and is about to arrive (according to East Asian ones).
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Director
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Last updated: 01/31/2005
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