<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Fri 12 Feb 2009</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</a>]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:Title VI confeence</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 12 Feb 2009</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:<a href="mailto:calper@psu.edu">calper@psu.edu</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:Title VI confeence</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">Dear Colleagues,<br><br>On March 19-21, 2009, the U.S. Department of Education will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Title VI <<a href="http://e2ma.net/go/1717856957/1563193/57492303/goto:http://titlevi50th.msu.edu">http://e2ma.net/go/1717856957/1563193/57492303/goto:http://titlevi50th.msu.edu</a>> with a two-day conference held in Washington, DC. The conference will highlight the significant impacts of Title VI programs in the United States, demonstrate the pressing need for Title VI programs in light of future and present needs, and address future directions of Title VI programs. The keynote address will be given by The Honorable Madeleine K. Albright.<br><br>The National Language Resource Centers (LRCs) Program is one of the programs funded by Title VI.<br><br>Recently, the LRCs composed and compiled a substantial booklet that describes some of our projects and initiatives and also provides a short overview of each center. Visit CALPER's web site to take a look at the Language Resource Center Booklet<<a href="http://e2ma.net/go/1717856957/1563193/57492306/goto:http://calper.la.psu.edu/nflrc.php">http://e2ma.net/go/1717856957/1563193/57492306/goto:http://calper.la.psu.edu/nflrc.php</a>>. The download might take a few moments.<br><br>The Center for Language Acquisition<<a href="http://e2ma.net/go/1717856957/1563193/57492308/goto:http://language.la.psu.edu">http://e2ma.net/go/1717856957/1563193/57492308/goto:http://language.la.psu.edu</a>> at Penn State will hold its 3rd Summer Institute in Applied Linguistics from June 22 - July 17, 2009. The faculty and staff at CALPER, who co-sponsors the event, hope to be able to welcome many of you to University Park.<br><br>As you probably noticed, we are using a new mailing system that will make sending out our occasional NEWS UPDATE more efficient. To ensure that you will receive future notes from CALPER, please add the service to your address book or safe list. Our emails are optimized to be viewed with Firefox and Internet Explorer. And feel free to share our CALPER NEWS UPDATE with your colleagues -- it's easy - just click the little envelope icon above this page.<br><br>Best regards - from the LRC in Pennsylvania<br><br>Gabriela Appel<br><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 12 Feb 2009</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>