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03/09/2023 01:58 PM EST
Office of the Spokesperson
To expand the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages that are critical to national security and economic prosperity and meet the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to support increased diversity and inclusion in higher education and international exchanges, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) announced today that approximately 500 American undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico have been selected for the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program for summer 2023.
Recipients are U.S. students enrolled in accredited U.S. degree-granting programs at the undergraduate (associate’s, bachelor’s) and graduate (master’s, doctoral, professional degree) level at the time of application. For the 2023 cohort, approximately half of CLS recipients self-identify as racial or ethnic minorities, and a quarter are first-generation college or university students. They represent 245 U.S. colleges and universities, of which 13 are community colleges and 47 are minority-serving institutions. Eighty are recipients of the CLS Spark award, an initiative that provides virtual instruction to undergraduate students at the beginning level of Arabic, Chinese, and Russian and focuses on students who do not have access to studying these languages on their home campus.
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