The programs being cut include the Language Flagship program in Mandarin at these schools:

• University of Oregon
• Brigham Young University in Utah
• San Francisco State University
• University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
• University of Washington, Seattle

Note that these schools are still offering Chinese and still have Chinese majors, they’re just not getting the additional support they had from the flagship program.

That leaves eight Mandarin Flagship programs open at these schools:

• Western Kentucky University
• University of Rhode Island
• University of Mississippi
• University of Minnesota
• Indiana University
• University of North Georgia
• Hunter College
• Arizona State University

Defense Department Cuts 13 of its Language Flagship Programs

Linguists are concerned about the implications the elimination of these programs may have on foreign relations.

By  Kathryn Palmer, Inside Higher Ed

The U.S. Department of Defense is withdrawing funding for more than a third of the 31 language flagship programs it supports at 23 universities across the country.

The move, which a department spokesperson said in email was driven by a “Congressional change in funding,” caught the linguistics community by surprise as one of the latest examples of declining support for postsecondary foreign language education.

“The decision by the National Security Education Program under the U.S. Department of Defense to terminate funding for the [University of Oregon’s] Chinese Flagship in 2024 was shocking, given the national strategic security interest in promoting professional-level language proficiency in languages like Chinese and Korean,” Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, director of the Chinese Flagship Program at the University of Oregon, said in an email.

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