This document summarizes Title VI National Resource Centers (NRCs), which are funded by the U.S. Department of Education to provide education on international and area studies at institutions of higher education. NRCs offer professional development for K-12 teachers, develop teaching materials, and provide resources on their specific area of focus. They collaborate with schools and teachers through workshops, curriculum development, advising, and more to enhance international content in primary and secondary education. The document provides examples of materials and programs available through NRCs.

1. Leveraging the Global
Resources of Higher Education
Natalie Arsenault,
Outreach Director
University of Texas at Austin
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
WEB: www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/llilas
EMAIL: n.arsenault@mail.utexas.edu
Valerie McGinley Marshall,
Director of External Relations
Tulane University
Stone Center for Latin American Studies
WEB: stonecenter.tulane.edu
EMAIL: vmcgmar@tulane.edu

2. Utilizing Title VI National
Resource Centers to Enhance
International Content:
What federal funded international
education programs at the post-
secondary level can provide for primary
and secondary programs

3. What is a Title VI National
Resource Center?
• Determined by the U.S. Department of
Education’s Title VI program
• Established by the HEA of 1965, Title VI,
Section 602a
• Centers (or consortia of centers) at
institutions of higher education that provide
comprehensive education on
international/area studies

4. What do NRCs do?
From the International Education Programs Service:
• Teaching of any modern foreign language;
• Instruction in fields needed to provide full
understanding of areas, regions, or countries in
which the language is commonly used;
• Research and training in international studies;
• Language aspects of professional and other fields
of study; and
• Instruction and research on issue in world affairs.

5. What are the Areas of Area
Studies?
• Africa, Middle East, Asia, East Asia,
Pacific Islands, South Asia, Southeast Asia,
Canada, Latin America, Europe and Russia,
Inner Asia, Russia and Eastern Europe, and
Western Europe and Europe, International
From IEPS National Resource Center Website, Applicant Abstracts,
http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsnrc/awards.html

6. Outreach Services Offered
• Professional Development Activities for K-12
teachers – the absolute priority activity of the
Title VI National Resource Center grant;
o Academic Year Educator Workshops
o Summer Workshops and Institutes
o Special Study Abroad for Educators includes
Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad and NEH
Summer Institutes

7. Outreach Services Offered
• Materials and Resource Development –
development of teaching materials for use by K-12
teachers;
o Aligned to national and state standards
o Often developed by K-12 teachers
o Usually free or very low cost
o Materials are content-rich

8. Sample Resources
Area Studies Councils and
Associations often sponsor book
awards for children’s and juvenile
literature featuring a certain world
area. Lists are available on
Outreach World at http://
www.outreachworld.org

9. Sample Resources
Africa Enslaved:
A Curriculum Unit on Comparative Slave Systems for Grades 9-12
Africa Enslaved explores comparative slave systems outside of the US, with particular focus on Latin
America (Brazil and Haiti), Africa (the Swahili Coast), and the Middle East (Ottoman Egypt).
Africa Enslaved uses primary documents in a AP-style Document-Based Question (DBQ) format to guide
students through a range of topics, including the legal status of slaves, slave labor, rights and
responsibilities of slaves and slave-owners, slaves and religion, rebellions, runaways and
emancipation, and abolition movements. Each case study includes a map, a one page historical
background, and a glossary of terms. Discussion of the different slave systems is aided by the
UNESCO Map of the Slave Route, and by charts that can be used to compare the systems with each
other, or, with guided or independent research, to slavery in the United States.
This unit is correlated to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for World History and the
National Standards for History.
Africa Enslaved was developed by Natalie Arsenault, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American
Studies, and Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at
Austin.
From the University of Texas at Austin’s Hemisphere’s Outreach Consortium

10. Outreach Services Offered
• General Outreach Services –
o Consulting/Advising/General Information for Teachers –
providing information on general topics and resources pertaining
to the world area of expertise;
o Electronic Resources – having an informative web site or portal to
web sites designed specifically for use by educators;
o Visitor Speaker Bureau – providing speakers when available to
visit classrooms or teacher events; speakers can be students,
faculty or staff;
o Resource Libraries – having a library of materials for use by
teachers,
o Simulation Activities – such as Model United Nations.

11. Professional Opportunities
• Content/Curriculum Development–
o Curriculum Development– Opportunities to work with NRCs to
plan, develop and write content-based curricula;
o Advisory Boards/Committees– serve on advisory or outreach
committees of a NRC;
o Course Access– content courses during summer or academic years
for reduced costs towards professional development in area
studies;
o Special Guests, Visitors, Lecturers– access to special guests at the
university for school/classroom visits
o Partnerships, Collaborations, Special Programming

12. Other Title VI funded Programs
Language Resource Centers (LRCs)
Centers for International Business Education and
Research (CIBERs)
Fulbright-Hays Group Study Abroad Projects
International Research & Studies (IRS)
Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign
Information Access (TICFIA)

13. How to find Title VI Centers
U.S. Dept. of Education National Resource Center site
http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsnrc/index.html
Outreach World – http://www.outreachworld.org/
Title VI Foreign Language Resource Centers –
http://nflrc.msu.edu/index.php
Title VI Centers for International Business Education –
and Research - http://ciberweb.msu.edu/
NRC Web Portal (under development) –
http://www.nrcweb.org