{"id":6875,"date":"2018-09-29T00:06:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T00:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/?p=6875"},"modified":"2018-11-02T23:38:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T23:38:47","slug":"over-2-million-awarded-to-uw-western-washington-university-partnership-to-expand-understanding-of-canada-and-u-s-canada-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/news\/over-2-million-awarded-to-uw-western-washington-university-partnership-to-expand-understanding-of-canada-and-u-s-canada-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Over $2 million awarded to University of Washington-Western Washington University partnership to expand understanding of Canada and U.S.-Canada relations"},"content":{"rendered":"

In September 2018, the University of Washington Canadian Studies Center, which is housed at the UW Jackson School of International Studies, in partnership with the Center for Canadian-American Studies,<\/a>Western Washington University (WWU), received over $2 million in Title VI grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education. The award includes a National Resource Center grant to strengthen teaching, research and outreach about Canada, and a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship grant for UW graduate students to study French and Indigenous languages spoken in Canada. The Center was one of six in the Jackson School<\/a> to receive a Title VI grant.<\/p>\n

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One of the first Jackson School Task Force courses on Canada in 2011. Students traveled to Ottawa to meet with representatives from the Government of Canada, Inuit organizations and Canadian scholars.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Title VI grant program is administered by the International and Foreign Language Education office with the mandate to strengthen foreign language instruction, area\/international studies teaching and research, professional development for educators, and curriculum development at the K-12, graduate, and postsecondary levels.<\/p>\n

UW and WWU will use the funding to strengthen the minor in Arctic Studies, develop a new minor in Salish Sea Studies and faculty line in Indigenous studies of the Salish Sea (WWU), enhance study-in-Qu\u00e9bec opportunities for students and educators and continue to develop curriculum materials for the study of the Inuit language.<\/p>\n

“It is the strongest Canadian Studies program in the country, offering courses, training, field-based opportunities, study abroad opportunities that are not offered anywhere else,” wrote one official reviewer in their remarks on the Title VI grant proposal.<\/p>\n

The Canadian studies centers at UW and WWU have received a Title VI grant since the mid-1980s. UW and WWU form the Pacific Northwest National Resource Center (NRC) on Canada, one of two Title VI funded NRCs in the country. The grant will fund the Center through the 2022 academic year.<\/p>\n

Expanding Canadian studies
\n<\/strong>The proposal for enhancing Canadian Studies in Washington state and beyond was due in large part to the dedication of our many colleagues who proposed courses, research and programs to advance a better understanding of Canada and the Canada-U.S. relationship. The following lists those colleagues and their proposed activities.<\/p>\n

Teaching\/course development<\/strong><\/p>\n