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The next generation of global professionals

The Language Flagship leads the nation in designing, supporting, and implementing a new paradigm for advanced language education. Through an innovative partnership among the federal government, education, and business, The Language Flagship seeks to graduate students who will take their place among the next generation of global professionals, commanding a superior level of fluency in one of many languages critical to U.S. competitiveness and security.

Read the Spring 2010 issue of Discourse

Spotlight on Flagship

University of Michigan's Language Flagship students groomed to be 'global professionals' from AnnArbor.com on Sept. 2

Flagship student receives Chinese Government Scholarship from WKU News on August 16

Seeing pandas up close from ASU News on July 23

U.S. Reps. Push for Foreign Language Teaching in ESEA from EdWeek on July 21

An interview with Michael Nugent: The Language Flagship from Education News, July 7

Students win scholarships to study in China for summer program from WKU News, July 13

High school students learn Chinese language, culture from ASU News, June 23

On July 28, former DOD Undersecretary for Personnel and Readiness David S. Chu, American Councils for International Education President Dan Davidson and CASL Executive Director Richard Brecht, testified along with members of the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management regarding the current efforts by the DOD and DHS to increase government foreign language capacity.

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