October 30, 2021
Native language institutes get federal Covid relief funding
The UO Department of Linguistics has received a federal COVID-19 relief grant to support curriculum, outreach and student employees in the Northwest Indian Language Institute and National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages.
“The pandemic impacted the Northwest Indian Language Institute on all levels, from revenue loss and reduced staffing to programmatic changes resulting in limited course offerings to restricted opportunities for Native and other university students to l...