The Institute in the News
Fulbright Program at UCLA provides exchange opportunities for visiting scholars
Ann Kerr, the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Enrichment Program coordinator at UCLA, speaks about her efforts to engage visiting scholars in the community. In addition, scholars Mykola Volkogon and Diego Ubfal discuss aspects of the Fulbright Program, including the Fiat Lux seminar class.
Posted: 7/3/2012
React and Respond: The Phenomenon of Kony 2012
A Guideline for teaching about issues raised by Kony 2012
Posted: 4/2/2012
German-born Professor Pioneers Korean Art Teaching in the U.S.
Professor Jungmann at UCLA pioneered introducing Korean art in an America university in 1999. On promoting Korean art overseas, the professor says ``politicization’’ is a problem.
Posted: 3/9/2012
Bilingual and struggling
A bilingual parent tries to keep a native tongue alive at home, a problem faced by many immigrants.
Posted: 10/19/2011
Albright, Hagel: Language cuts endanger U.S.
The modest funding for International Education and Foreign Language Studies is vital to maintaining and enhancing our critical workforce needs. The institutional capacity on university campuses across the nation that exists today has taken decades to build and would be impossible to easily recapture once these programs are slashed. These cuts threaten that capacity.
Posted: 7/18/2011
UCLA Celebrates 50 Years of the Peace Corps
The Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Daily Breeze report today on UCLA's celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, a series of events that begins tonight with a panel discussion featuring MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews and Peace Corps director Aaron S. Williams and runs through Saturday, March 5. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block is quoted in the Daily Breeze.
Posted: 3/2/2011
Professor John Duncan Receives Manhae Grand Prize
John Duncan, director of the Center for Korean Studies and a professor in the Asian Languages and Cultures Department, has received the Manhae Grand Prize in academics from the Manhae Foundation in Korea.
Posted: 8/25/2010
Alone With Her Passion
Though born in Germany and living in Los Angeles, Burglind Jungmann has always been drawn to Korea, its culture, its history and its art. The interview needs one correction: rather than of M.A. students Jungmann spoke of more than six hundred B.A. students she has taught at UCLA over the years.
Posted: 1/13/2010
Legalize Immigrants, Boost Economy
The Los Angeles Times, a New York Times blog and La Opinin highlight a new report by Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda, UCLA associate professor of Chicano studies, asserting that immigration reform that would legalize undocumented immigrants in the U.S. could help create jobs, increase wages and generate more tax revenue. The Miami Herald cited the study Wednesday in an article about Catholic leaders urging President Obama to make immigration reform a priority.
Posted: 1/8/2010
Wise to Nurture 'Heritage Speakers'
The State of Maryland passed a law creating a Task Force on the Preservation of Heritage Languages. Catherine Ingold, director of University of Maryland's National Foreign Language Center, discusses the law in a June 23, 2008 Baltimore Sun article.
Posted: 6/23/2008
Heritage Language Center Featured in NY Times
The efforts and research of the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA are highlighted in the May 7, 2007, edition of The New York Times.
Posted: 5/7/2007
