This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------ =_NextPart_001_01C09679.4CB16FC0 Content-Type: text/plain LEARN TO READ AND WRITE HMONG, LAO OR KHMER! Applications are now available for speakers of Hmong, Lao or Khmer who wish to learn to read and write their own languages. The Hmong, Lao, Khmer Heritage Language Project at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) provides classes for community college and university students, teachers, and other professionals who want to learn to read and write Hmong, Lao or Khmer. These intensive classes meet this summer for five days a week for four hours a day for nine weeks at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These classes are for people who are already speakers of Hmong or Lao or Khmer. Participants in the classes with earn six credits of university course work in Hmong or Lao or Khmer at the second-year level.* Financial Aid Those who wish to study may apply for the Hmong, Lao and Khmer Language Student Awards. With initial support from the Henry Luce Foundation, SEASSI at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has committed funding for five awards of full SEASSI tuition ($2,000) plus a living stipend ($1200). The aim of these fellowships is to promote the study of Hmong, Lao and Khmer languages by students of Hmong, Lao and Cambodian heritage. The deadline for these fellowship applications is March 1, 2001. Due to the limited funds available, all eligible applicants are strongly encouraged to apply for tuition fellowships as well. The deadline for tuition fellowships is April 1,2001. Contact Information Information about SEASSI; the Hmong, Lao and Khmer heritage classses; and financial aid and applications may be found on the SEASSI website at http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/seassi/ For questions, phone SEASSI Coordinator Mary Jo Studenberg at 608-263-1755 or email her at mjstuden@facstaff.wisc.edu Inquiries about Lao may be made to Carol Compton at 608-265-7908 or email her at compton@facstaff.wisc.edu For information about the content of the Khmer class, contact Frank Smith at vox@speakeasy.org For Hmong you may contact Lopao Vang at lvang@madison.k12.wi.us or call him at 608-273-5910, Ext. 156 (office) or evenings at 608-834-1694. Please share this information in announcements, newsletters and through radio and television programs in your communities. * Other languages offered at SEASSI are Burmese, Filipino, Indonesian, Javanese, Thai and Vietnamese. As you work with community members who would like to gain or improve their skills in one of these languages, please keep SEASSI in mind. ------ =_NextPart_001_01C09679.4CB16FC0 Content-Type: text/html

 

LEARN TO READ AND WRITE HMONG, LAO OR KHMER!

        Applications are now available for speakers of Hmong, Lao or Khmer who wish to learn to read and write their own languages. The Hmong, Lao, Khmer Heritage Language Project at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) provides classes for community college and university students, teachers, and other professionals who want to learn to read and write Hmong, Lao or Khmer. These intensive classes meet this summer for five days a week for four hours a day for nine weeks at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  These classes are for people who are already speakers of Hmong or Lao or Khmer.  Participants in the classes with earn six credits of university course work in Hmong or Lao or Khmer at the second-year level.*

Financial Aid
Those who wish to study may apply for the Hmong, Lao and Khmer Language Student Awards. With initial support from the Henry Luce Foundation, SEASSI at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has committed funding for five awards of full SEASSI tuition ($2,000) plus a living stipend ($1200).  The aim of these fellowships is to promote the study of Hmong, Lao and Khmer languages by students of Hmong, Lao and Cambodian heritage. The deadline for these fellowship applications is March 1, 2001.  Due to the limited funds available, all eligible applicants are strongly encouraged to apply for tuition fellowships as well. The deadline for tuition fellowships is April 1,2001.

Contact Information
        Information about SEASSI; the Hmong, Lao and Khmer heritage classses; and financial aid and applications may be found on the SEASSI website at
http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/seassi/
For questions, phone SEASSI Coordinator Mary Jo Studenberg at 608-263-1755 or email her at mjstuden@facstaff.wisc.edu  Inquiries about Lao may be made to Carol Compton at 608-265-7908 or email her at compton@facstaff.wisc.edu  For information about the content of the Khmer class, contact Frank Smith at vox@speakeasy.org  For Hmong you may contact Lopao Vang at lvang@madison.k12.wi.us or call him at 608-273-5910, Ext. 156 (office) or evenings at 608-834-1694.

Please share this information in announcements, newsletters and through radio and television programs in your communities. 


* Other languages offered at SEASSI are Burmese, Filipino, Indonesian, Javanese, Thai and Vietnamese.  As you work with community members who would like to gain or improve their skills in one of these languages, please keep SEASSI in mind.

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