<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dear Colleagues,</font></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="line-break:after-white-space"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">As you may know, the U.S. Department of Education has not yet released the funding provided for Title VI and Fulbright-Hays. Title VI is the program that funds the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawaii, which supports work on professional learning (particularly project-based language learning and online pedagogy), several professional conferences, journals, summer institutes, and the development of instructional materials for the less-commonly taught languages in the U.S.</font></div><div dir="auto" style="line-break:after-white-space"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">In collaboration with the National Humanities Alliance, the Coalition for International Education has set up an Action Alert in which any citizen may urge their Senators and House Member to contact the Director of OMB and Secretary of ED to release and disburse these funds immediately. The Alert contains a letter from you to your Senators and House Member. You also may include in the letter additional information you would like to share about the importance of NFLRC to American interests and what would be lost if they were eliminated.</font></span><span aria-label="" style="box-sizing:inherit;height:8px;display:block;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"></span><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Access the Action Alert at this link:</span><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"> </span><a href="https://p2a.co/08Euvjp" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(18,100,163);text-decoration-line:none;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures" target="_blank">https://p2a.co/08Euvjp</a></font><span aria-label="" style="box-sizing:inherit;height:8px;display:block;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"></span><span aria-label="" style="box-sizing:inherit;height:8px;display:block;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><br></span><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Julio C Rodriguez, Director</span><br style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">National Foreign Language Resource Center</span><br style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa</span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font size="2"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Lucida Grande"">**********************************************************************</span><br></div></div></span><b>National Foreign Language Resource Center</b></font><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa</font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">1890 East-West Road, Moore Hall 256</font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Honolulu, HI  96822</font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Phone: 808-956-9424</font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:nflrc@hawaii.edu" target="_blank">nflrc@hawaii.edu</a></font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Website: </font><font color="#0000ee" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><u><a href="https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/" target="_blank">https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/</a></u></font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">NFLRC Facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/NFLRC/" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/NFLRC/</a></font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">NFLRC Instagram page: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nflrc_hawaii/" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/nflrc_hawaii/ </a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">NFLRC LinkedIn page: <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-foreign-language-resource-center-nflrc-/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-foreign-language-resource-center-nflrc-/</a></u></font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">NFLRC YouTube channel:  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/nflrchawaii" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/user/nflrchawaii</a></font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">NFLRC listserv: <a href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/about/11/" target="_blank">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/about/11/</a></span></font></div><div style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";word-wrap:break-word">**********************************************************************</div></div></span></font></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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