National Resource Center

What are the Title VI National Resource Centers (NRCs)?

• Began in 1965 as part of the Higher Education Act
• Included in this act were National Resource Centers, Language Resource Centers and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS)
• Well over 100 NRC, LRC and FLAS throughout the country.
• Engaged in promoting their area of study.
• Absolute Priority: To engage in teacher-training activities.

A complete list all centers can be found at: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/NRC_LRC.htm

The Title VI NRC is a grant provided by the Federal Education Secretary to promote area studies in the US.

The Center for Latin American Studies received this grant in July, 2006.