1. SUMMER ACCEL Language Dual Enrollment

2. PURPOSE To provide a pilot concept for a summer Accel program for regional students without access to dual enrollment programs for languages.

3. AGENDA Economic value of language proficiency The UNG Language Experience Dual Enrollment Research Access Challenges Language Learning Challenges Pathways to Success What We Can Accomplish

4. ECONOMIC VALUE LANGUAGE LEARNING Speaking a foreign language is rewarded in the labor market Earnings of college graduates who speak a foreign language are higher than the earnings of those who don’t Speaking a foreign language provides a general return on investment of 2-4% (MIT study) Certain career fields require foreign language proficiency – Intelligence services (CIA, NSA, FBI) – Military (an increasing expectation) – International affairs Other career fields provide additional employment opportunities not available to monolingual graduates – International Business – Cyber-security

5. UNG CRITICAL LANGUAGE ENROLLMENTS UNG is a DOD Chinese Mandarin Flagship Critical Language enrollments are significant SUBJECT AREACIVROTCTOTAL ARABIC5356109 CHINESE8273155 KOREAN292150 RUSSIAN334073 TOTAL197190387 UNG practices intensive and immersion language learning and has extensive experience with Summer Language Institutes.

6. FEDERAL SERVICE LANGUAGE ACADEMY TEACHERS Arabic: Ibraheem Ananzeh (U. Northern Iowa) Arabic: Sarah Rangwala (Maryland HS) Chinese: Ling Rao (UGA) Chinese: Yi Zeng (World Language Academy) Russian: Natalia Shakina (Valdosta State) Russian: Irina Kruchinina (UGA) German: Serap Zorba (Berlin) German: Sabine Grauhan (Berlin) Korean: Sooji Lee (U. Southern California) STUDENTS FSLA 2011-2014 – 447 students – 250 still in high school – 29 now attend UNG (15%) Summer 2014 (126) – 19 states – 2 countries Ethnic Breakdown: – Caucasians: 98 – African-American: 17 – Asian: 1 – Latino: 3 – Multicultural: 7 FSLA is a three week residential intensive language program for high school students. The program will offer its first study abroad immersion in Berlin in 2015.

7. UNG LANGUAGE PROGRAM GOALS ACTFL (American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages) ILR (Interagency Language Roundtable) Novice Low S0no proficiency Novice Mid Novice High 6 WeeksS0+memorized proficiency Intermediate Low S1Elementary proficiency Intermediate Mid Intermediate HighS1+Elementary proficiency, plus Advanced Low S2Limited working proficiency Advanced Mid 54 Weeks Advanced HighS2+Limited working proficiency, plus Superior 72 Weeks S3General professional proficiency S3+General professional proficiency, plus S4Advanced professional proficiency S4+Advanced professional proficiency, plus S5Functionally native proficiency DLI Basic Course Proficiency 7 Language Enabled

8. LANGUAGE LEARNING TIME REQUIREMENTS CATEGORY I French, Spanish CATEGORY II German CATEGORY III Russian CATEGORY IV Arabic, Chinese, Japanese Korean 8 It takes over three times the amount of instruction to achieve an equivalent level of proficiency in a Category IV language than it does to learn Spanish.

9. DUAL ENROLLMENT RESEARCH Motivates students to attend college Acclimatizes students to college expectations Facilitates alignment of standards and expectations Students benefit from taking multiple college courses Instructor selection is important Tuition and fees an obstacle (~3% attrition/$1000 increase) Especially attractive for underrepresented populations Especially attractive for underrepresented populations Best experience is in regular college classroom Best experience is in regular college classroom

10. ACELL ACCESS CHALLENGES HOPE 2017 Access Requirements – Four Course Requirements (foreign language can fulfill) – AP, IB, Dual Enrollment (Accel) Availability (Rural Regions) North Georgia Geographic Access – Counties without any post –secondary campus (7) – Counties without a University System Campus (19) – Foreign language not a TCSG mission – Student transportation a personal requirement Financial Access – Students do not qualify for Federal Financial Aid – Accel only pays tuition; Fees and book costs are student’s – Room and board not funded…but on campus most effective Dual Enrollment Access to Critical Languages – Critical languages not available outside major metropolitan areas – Critical languages take significantly longer to acquire proficiency – Learning a critical language must begin as early as possible Access is a University of North Georgia Mission.

11. PIONEER & NORTHEAST GEORGIA RESA LANGUAGE CAPABILITY GERMAN

12. REGIONAL LANGUAGE PROGRAMS BY TYPE SECONDARY INSTITUTIONS MINIMAL PRESENCE OF CRITICAL LANGUAGES IN REGION ARABIC AND KOREAN NOT TAUGHT IN THE REGION

13. HIGHER EDUCATION LANGUAGES REGIONAL POST-SECONDARY CAPABILITY ONLY HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS ARE AUTHORIZED TO DELIVER ACCEL LANGUAGE COURSES

14. UNG ACCEL APPROVED LANGUAGES Elementary French I&II Intermediate French I&II Elementary Spanish I&II Intermediate Spanish I&II Elementary Italian I&II Intermediate Italian I Elementary German I&II Intermediate German I&II Elementary Latin I&II Intermediate Latin I&II Elementary Russian I&II Intermediate Russian I&II Elementary Chinese I&II Intermediate Chinese I&II Elementary Korean I&II Intermediate Korean I&II Elementary Arabic I&II Intermediate Arabic I&II

15. SAMPLE PATHWAY MODEL CAT IV Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Japanese Sophomore- Junior Summer Junior- Senior Summer HS Senior- University Freshman Summer Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Professional Proficiency S-3 S-2+ S-2 S-1+ S-1 S-0+ Accel Georgia Virtual School Georgia ONmyLINE Intensive Instruction (Six Credit Hour Blocks) Study Abroad Immersion

16. SUMMER ACCEL LANGUAGE PILOT PROGRAMTUITIONCREDIT HRSSTUDENTSTOTAL SUMMER LANGUAGE INSTITUTE$169.93830$40,783.20 BERLIN GERMAN IMMERSION$169.93416$10,875.52 TOTAL ACCEL REQUEST$51,658.72 PROGRAMPROGRAM FEES 1 STUDENTSTOTAL SUMMER LANGUAGE INSTITUTE$1,25030$37,500 BERLIN GERMAN IMMERSION$3,497 2 16$55,952 TOTAL DONOR SUPPORT REQUEST$93,452 NOTES: 1. UNG does not charge institutional fees to Accel students ($460). Program fees include room, board, activities and books. 2. Berlin program fee includes approximately $2,250 in travel costs.

17. WHAT WE CAN ACCOMPLISH Create proficiency in the most difficult critical languages Provide early credentialing and critical dual degrees – Cyber Security/Language – International Business/Language – National Security/Language Create higher income wage earners Educate future key influencers Provide leaders for an international workforce Help rural students meet expanding HOPE requirements Provide opportunity where none exists The goal of summer Accel is to provide opportunity for accelerated education in strategically selected critical languages not available to most high school students during the regular fall and spring semesters and not available through the Technical College System.

18. Think globally, act locally! DISCUSSION