Assistance program
Overseas Programs - Group Projects Abroad
$22.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2025
- Agency
- Office of Postsecondary Education, Education, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 84.021
- What it does
- To contribute to the development and improvement of the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States by providing grants to support overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies for teachers, students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor.
- Who benefits
- A participant must be: a citizen, national, or permanent resident of the U.S., employed full-time in a U.S. school system, IHE, LEA or SEA. and at least one of the following: • A teacher in a K-12 school; • A faculty member who teaches modern foreign languages or area studies; • An experienced administrator responsible for planning, conducting, or supervising programs in modern foreign languages or area studies at the K-12 or postsecondary levels; • A graduate student or junior or senior in an IHE, who is a prospective teacher in the areas of modern foreign languages or area studies. Students should meet the provisions set by their LEA or SEA; or • For the Advanced Overseas Intensive Language Training project, the participating student, other than those planning a teaching career, should be planning to apply their language skills and knowledge of countries vital to U.S. national security in fields outside teaching.
- Who applies
- Institutions of higher education, State departments of education, private nonprofit educational organizations, and a consortium of institutions, departments, and organizations.
- Authorized by
- Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, as amended
Committed by fiscal year
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
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- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
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Direct payments