In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ohio State has decided that all Summer 2020 Semester courses will be online and university sponsored travel is prohibited through June. This is in line with many other higher education institutions across the country. As a result, for summer 2020, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships cannot be used to study overseas. However, many domestic intensive language programs remain open and almost all have decided to move their programs online as well. Some have also reduced their tuition fees as a result of the switch in form of instruction. CSEES has compiled information below on some of the primary programs still in operation for East European and Eurasian languages.  

• Arizona State’s Critical Languages Institute (Albanian, Armenian, BCS, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Uzbek)
• Beloit College’s Center for Language Studies (Russian)
• Indiana University’s Language Workshop (Azeri, BCS, Estonian, Hungarian, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mongolian, Russian, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, and Uzbek)
• University of Pittsburgh’s Summer Language Institute (BCS, Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Turkish, and Ukrainian)
• University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (Kazakh, Tajik, Uyghur, and Uzbek)

CSEES' assistant director Eileen Kunkler has written a blog post about the implications for COVID-19 on FLAS and study abroad.