--- Forwarded Message from "Harold F. Schiffman" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 09:56:59 -0400 (EDT) >From: "Harold F. Schiffman" <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: New Consortium formed ------------------ This is to announce the formation of a Consortium for Language Policy and Planning, to be hosted by the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Language Center and Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict. The Consortium is an unincorporated assembly of a number of research universities, advocacy bodies, and other scholars interested in issues of language policy and planning. Research Universities are those with programs involving several scholars, disciplines, departments, or schools focused (in whole or in part) on language policy study: Current members are: City University of New York (Graduate Center); Long Island University, New York University, Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania. Individual Scholars are typically located at institutions without established programs, other than their own research interests. Advocacy Bodies are organizations, institutes, centers etc. whose main goal is not research, but are primarily devoted to the advocacy of issues surrounding language policy and conflict. MISSION: The objectives of the Consortium are to enhance the quality of research, teaching, and information-dissemination on the subject of language policy formation and study; to strengthen similarly-oriented programs of its member institutions, and to foster dialogue on the process of language policy formation in situations of ethnic and linguistic conflict in the modern world. In particular, the Consortium for Language Policy and Planning will have as a primary focus projects that are educational and informational--the Consortium will sponsor workshops, summer institutes, informational and short-courses designed to bring to public discussion issues affecting schools and other multilingual sites of contention in contemporary America and other parts of the world. The Consortium welcomes new members and/or affiliations with similarly- oriented institutions. For more information, consult the Consortium's website at: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp/