{"75761":{"#nid":"75761","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Royster on Growth in Chinese Language Studies","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026nbsp;has\u0026nbsp;has been offering Mandarin to all its students for over a decade and the language is growing in popularity, says Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Dean \u003Cstrong\u003EJacqueline Jones-Royster\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u201cChina is a player on the world stage now so we have to treat them as players on the world stage.\u201d Royster was discussing\u0026nbsp; a U.S. Department of Defense grant\u0026nbsp;for teaching\u0026nbsp;Chinese, a top strategic language.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/28\/schools-turn-to-chinese-language-classes-with-help-of-chinese-government\/\u0022\u003Ecnn.com\u003C\/a\u003E December 28, 2012\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2012-01-03 17:11:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:16","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/28\/schools-turn-to-chinese-language-classes-with-help-of-chinese-government\/","dateline":{"date":"2011-12-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-12-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"16311","name":"Chinese language"},{"id":"10924","name":"Dean Royster"},{"id":"16341","name":"Derek Woodham"},{"id":"3671","name":"Enterprise Innovation Institute"},{"id":"16331","name":"GaMEP"},{"id":"9391","name":"Mandarin"},{"id":"215","name":"manufacturing"},{"id":"16321","name":"OrthoCare"},{"id":"2074","name":"orthotics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}