The following Florida International University students have been awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) to study critical languages during the summer of 2019:
| Name | Language | Host Locations |
| Lisa Brown | Japanese | Okayama, Japan |
| Miranda Campoo | Korean | Busan, South Korea |
The Critical Language Scholarship Program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. These students are among the approximately 550 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students who received a CLS scholarship in 2019. Selected finalists hail from 48 states and the District of Columbia, and represent more than 200 institutions of higher education from across the United States, including public and private universities, liberal arts colleges, minority-serving institutions and community colleges. Each CLS participant will spend eight to ten weeks in one of 24 locations studying Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, or Urdu.
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The Critical Language Scholarship Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, with funding provided by the U.S. Government. It is supported in its implementation by American Councils for International Education.
