Conference registration reminder: Second National Conference on Heritage Languages in America - ON-LINE REGISTRATION NOW OPERATIONAL AGAIN

[McGinnis, Scott]

Apologies to any and all of you that were trying to register on-line
last week. The organization hosting the server for the conference
registration site was flooded for several days, and the server was down
-- but all is operational again.

And apologies as well for those of you that have already registered --
we merely want to make sure that folks are able to take advantage of the
reduced pre-registration rates.

October 18-20, 2002
HERITAGE LANGUAGES CONFERENCE
REGISTER NOW!!

Pre-register for the Second National Conference on Heritage Languages in
America, to be held in Tysons Corner, VA (a suburb of Washington, D.C).

Be sure to pre-register by July 19 for the best rate!

To request a pre-registration brochure (with a poster that you can
display), visit:
http://www.cal.org/heritage/request.asp

To register and read more about the conference, visit:

http://www.cal.org/heritage/conferences/2002/

This Second National Conference will seek to further the aims of the
Heritage Languages Initiative, a national effort to develop the
non-English language resources that exist in our communities. It will
bring together heritage language community and school leaders,
representatives from pre-K-12 schools and colleges and universities,
world-renowned researchers, and federal and state policymakers. The
goals of the Heritage Languages Initiative and this conference are to
continue to make manifest the personal, economic, and social benefits to
our nation of preserving and developing the languages spoken by those
living in this country; to build a national dialogue on this topic; and
to develop an action agenda for the next several years.