N ORTH GEORGI A COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY

1. NORTH GEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE TRAINING CENTER CONCEPT 16 June 2011

2. AGENDA • Background • Objectives • Key Tasks • Concept • Funding • Discussion

3. BACKGROUND • Defense Language Transformation Roadmap JAN 2005 • National Security Language Initiative, 5 JAN 2006 • House Armed Services Committee Report, NOV 2008 • Army Culture and Foreign Language Strategy, 1 DEC 2009 • Quadrennial Defense Review Report, FEB 2010 • FY 10 National Defense Authorizations Act, Section 529

4. OBJECTIVES • Meet ROTC/Reserve Component requirements • “Military Language Flagship” regional hub • Core Languages • East Asia • Mandarin • Korean • Southwest Asia • Farsi • Arabic • Europe • Russian • Summer special programs as required • Linked study abroad and internship opportunities

5. KEY TASKS • Obtain startup funding • Establish instructional teams • Develop curriculum and supporting programs • Recruit to fill student cohorts • Establish K-12 pipelines • Integrate with Guard Language Center of Excellence-East • Create sustainable demand and expand capability • Transition to institutional funding

6. STRATEGIC LANGUAGE INTENSIVE PROGRAM (SLIP) • Cohort Based; 10-18 students • Instructional Team • Two professors, two assistants, two tutors • Instructor ratio with tutors 1:3 • Semester Intensive • 15 weeks of immersion; 25 hours/week • 3 credit hour blocks; 12 per semester • Curriculum Inversion; language first • Academic major or minor • Baccalaureate 2+2 for DLI graduates • Potential for advanced degrees

7. SUMMER LANGUAGE INSTITUTES • Initial training for ROTC transient Cadets • Third semester for core languages • Same cohort structure as academic year • Twelve weeks of instruction • 30 hours of in-class instruction per week • Low density “special needs” languages • Swahili • Georgian • Proficiency goals • ILR 0+/1 for Cat IV • ILR 1/1++ for Cat I

8. GROUP STUDY ABROAD • Mandarin • Liaocheng University (PRC) • Tsinghua University (PRC) • Arabic • Mohammed V (Morocco) • University of Alexandria • Korean • Sogang University (Seoul) • Russian • St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University

9. INTEGRATED/LINKED PROGRAMS • Reciprocal Group Exchange • Individual Internships • Distance Learning • Intercultural Dialogue • K-12 Pipeline Development • Center for Language Education • Graduate teaching assistants • Heritage community engagement • English instruction for group exchanges • Language Training Center of Excellence-East

10. RELATED INITIATIVES • Out of state tuition waivers for Cadets and military • Georgia Army National Guard Detachment (2002) • Defense Language Institute articulation agreement (2003) • US Army Reserve Detachment (2006) • Georgia Department of Education partnership (2011) • North Georgia Network (2012) • Reserve Component Regional Training Facility (2015)

11. INSTRUCTOR FUNDING MODEL(18 CREDIT HOUR PER SEMESTER MODEL) * Based upon tuition rate of $160 per credit hour ** State appropriations formula; funding lag of two to three years ***Includes fringe benefits @ 30% of base salary for academic year

12. ACADEMIC CREDIT

13. COST PER STUDENT NOTES: *Based on five months of base pay or ROTC stipend for a semester. **Assumes DLIFLC zip code. North Georgia BAH ~ 40% less than Monterey. ***Cadet Language Incentive Pay (CLIP) is $250 per credit hour Does not include cost to government for DLIFLC or PLTCE language faculty, travel or temporary duty.

14. FUNDING TRANSITION NOTES: FY 2012 new 10 Gigabit fiber loop in place. University is primary data center. FY 2013 Guard requirements shift to Dari and Pashtu. FY 2014 final year of DOD funding. FY 2015 FYDP scheduled completion of Reserve Component Regional Training Facility; all languages shifted to university based funding.

15. DISCUSSION

16. BACKUP SLIDES

17. CHALLENGES CATEGORY I French, Spanish CATEGORY II German CATEGORY III Russian CATEGORY IV Arabic, Chinese, Korean

18. CRITICAL LANGUAGE SCHOOLS North Georgia College & State University CRITICAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL DODEA OFFICE DODEA SCHOOL

19. NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE PROGRAM • Army Reserve Soldiers in the Corps: • 80 in the Georgia Mountain Detachment • 15 training with other units • 95 total • 6 DLIFLC language program • Georgia Army National Guard: • 181 present • 108 on GMS • 60 in the Guard Detachment on campus • 15 DLIFLC language program • Total Present: 276 = 40% of the Corps of Cadets 19

20. Articulation agreement since 2003 Only institution in USG providing complete academic credit Supported by National Guard and USAR Languages: Arabic, Farsi, Chinese, Korean, Russian Normally 10-20 students involved Potential expanded partnership ROTC Language and Culture Project Pre-assignment preparation of DLI students Off site for mobile training team programs for regional units Complementary degree programs (DLIFLC/ North Georgia 2+2) DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE PARTNERSHIP

21. HERITAGE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTGEORGIA STATISTICS • 12thnationally in critical language speakers • More Chinese than 3 of 4 National Flagships • More Korean speakers than Hawaii (Flagship) • Arabic speakers ~1,500 < Maryland (Flagship) • Farsi speakers...9thnationally • African languages…twice the national average • All located in an area the size of Hawaii • In North Georgia’s recruiting footprint