KENT, Ohio – Kent State University has received a $1 million grant to develop a state-of-the-art distance learning translation studies program.
The Institute for Applied Linguistics received the grant from from the Gawlicki Family Foundation of Hartford, Connecticut.
The institute was founded at Kent State in 1988 and serves more than 100 undergraduate and graduate students. It is the only program that offers training from the bachelor’s level to doctorate, and it is the only program in the country that offers a full Arabic translation graduate degree.
The research and education program is affiliated with Kent State’s Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies.
The grant will create a new faculty position focused on distance learning in translation studies, develop a new technology infrastructure and develop courses. The program will be named the Gawlicki Family Foundation Online Master of Arts in Translation Program.
“We are tremendously grateful to the Gawlicki Family Foundation for this transformational gift,” Kent State President Beverly Warren said in a statement. “It will enable us to better fulfill our global mission by bringing our outstanding translational studies program to the world through a high-quality, technology-rich distance learning platform.”
Founded by Ted and Mary Gawlicki in 2012, the foundation grew from their desire to seek solutions to problems in areas of education, respiratory healthcare and translation.
The foundation noticed that translators were nearing retirement age and few people were undergoing training, Francoise Massardier-Kenney, director of the Kent State institute, said in a statement.
“So they started doing research about translation programs in the U.S. and then contacted me to discuss what could be done to provide greater access to first-rate training,” she said. “We are working to deliver the best graduate distance learning program internationally.”
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