Wittenberg's East Asian Studies (EAS) program received a generous $1.9 million grant from the Freeman Foundation in January 2002. The Foundation is committed to increasing, strengthening, and popularizing the teaching of Asia in college and university classrooms.
The grant, the largest single foundation grant ever received by a Wittenberg program or department, totals $1,958,723 and will be distributed over the next four years. With the grant, the EAS program aims to ensure that all students, regardless of their course of study, have an encounter with Asia as part of their undergraduate experience. This involves expanding the curriculum across additional disciplines.
The four years that the Freeman grant covers are expected to show an increasingly dramatic effect on Wittenberg and serve as a new standard for other EAS programs across the country. The four major categories of the grant are presented in the outline above.
