The MSU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies was awarded two Title VI grants from the U.S. Department of Education: National Resource Center (NRC) and a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) grants.

The NRC award supports teaching and scholarship on Latin America and the Caribbean as well as outreach on the region. As a National Resource Center, CLACS serves as a public resource on Latin America for K-12 educators, community college faculty, businesses, and government officials throughout Michigan and across the nation.

The FLAS grant will support fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students that study Less Commonly Taught Languages. For Latin America, these include Portuguese and Indigenous languages, as well as Haitian Kreyol. Fellowships provide both tuition and living stipends and are available for the academic year as well as for summer intensive programs.

Additional institutions that are NRC and/or FLAS programs for the Latin American/Caribbean region include:

• Florida International University
• Indiana University
• Stanford University
• University of Arizona
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of Florida
• University of Illinois
• University of Kansas
• University of Michigan
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & Duke University Consortium
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Utah & Brigham Young University Consortium
• University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Consortium
• Vanderbilt University