The Center for Slavic and East European Studies is starting a new program as part of its Title VI Comprehensive National Resource Center grant from the International and Foreign Language Education division of the U.S. Department of Education. As a Comprehensive National Resource Center, part of CSEES' mission is to promote and spread knowledge about Eastern Europe and Eurasia to the wider community, K-12 schools, and higher education institutions, and in particular, to community colleges and minority serving institutions. In its 2018-22 grant application, CSEES designed a new program to reinvigorate and enhance the resources and support it has historically provided for educators. The East European and Eurasian Online Curricular Module program will create online, easily accessible resources for educators to use in the classroom or to assign to students to expand their knowledge of and teaching about Eastern Europe and Eurasia. The program will fund OSU faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students (under the direct mentorship of a faculty member) to create modules that would be a self-contained unit on a particular topic. Modules could be developed as an online video, podcast, a PowerPoint slide with recorded audio, or online text for example, and include images, projects, or suggested assignments. Topics for the modules should be broad enough for a general audience with little background knowledge of the region, and articulate well with K-12 or general education requirements at higher education institutions. Additionally, modules could also be created on a general or international topic, such as global pollution, but at least 50% of the module's content must be specific to Eastern Europe or Eurasia.

To launch the new program, CSEES is requesting expressions of interest through October 1, 2019. Faculty and graduate students interested in this program should read the