{"id":18176,"date":"2019-07-04T06:51:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T06:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18176"},"modified":"2019-07-04T06:51:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T06:51:51","slug":"indiana-university-awarded-970000-to-establish-language-training-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/indiana-university-awarded-970000-to-establish-language-training-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana University awarded $970,000 to establish language training center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The &#8220;Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies&#8221; at Indiana University has been granted a very generous sum of nine hundred thousand USD. The purpose of the fund is to set up a training center for languages and culture for the personnel at the United States Department of Defense.<\/strong><br \/>\nA deep understanding of history, culture, and language of a region helps in <strong>better understanding international issues<\/strong>. Hamilton Lugar School is considered to be the best school in this category and is ideally suited to train defense professionals.<br \/>\nIndiana University <strong>offers more than eighty world languages<\/strong>, which includes Korean, Chinese, Russian, etc. They provide training in the cultures of South America, Central Asia, the Middle East, among others.<br \/>\n<strong>This program is intended to support the Indiana National Guard and U.S Special Operations Forces.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe program is established on behalf of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/dlnseo.org\/content\/mission-and-approach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Defense Language and National Security Education Office<\/a>.&#8221; One of their priorities for national defense is to maintain a pipeline of talent skilled in critical languages.<br \/>\nLee Feinstein, former Ambassador and founding Dean of the Hamilton Lugar School, sees this award as an a<strong>cknowledgment of the college for their contribution in the field of language studies<\/strong>. He said,<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The generous grant validates the school and university&#8217;s support to deepen its commitment to the study of languages and area studies, at a time when national trends are in the other direction, with universities shrinking or even eliminating language programs.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies&#8221; at Indiana University has been granted a very generous sum of nine hundred thousand USD. The purpose of the fund is to set up a training center for languages and culture for the personnel at the United States Department of Defense. A deep understanding of history, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25],"tags":[394,657,755,839,841],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}