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- Awarded grant from the EXXON
Education Foundation for experimentation in language instruction
(1968-70). Received a supplementary grant to continue research
and to
disseminate findings to the widest possible audience.
- In 1975, invited to
participate in the EXXON/IMPACT
Program for
dissemination of the intensive language model developed, described by
EXXON as "an educational innovation of demonstrated merit." Under
this
grant fifty–eight colleges and universities sent representatives to
Dartmouth over a three-year period to be trained in methodology and
program design. Thirty-eight candidates were awarded seed money
to
implement the methods at their home institutions. The remaining
twenty
candidates established the program at their institutions without
financial support from EXXON.
- Awarded grant from
the Sloan Foundation to develop a
video language
laboratory and a prototype series of videotapes for instruction in
language and literature (1975-76).
- Awarded grant
(January 1980) from the EXXON Education
Foundation to
convoke all college and university teachers I had trained under their
auspices for the purpose of organizing future efforts and dissemination
tactics to reach as many college/university, high school and elementary
schools as possible.
- Awarded six-year
grant by the Charles A. Dana Foundation to
lead
Dartmouth colleagues and Visiting Scholars from throughout the United
States in a Collaborative \ effort to improve the instruction of
language and culture, to codify cultural signs, and to develop
computer-assisted and video materials. (1987-1992)
- Awarded grant
(1993-1998) from The New York Times Foundation, The Chase Manhattan
Foundation, and The Francis Gould Foundation for work in French
immersion language acquisition with the Frederick Douglass
Academy. (New York City)
- Awarded grant from
Corporate and University Relations, CITIBANK, for seminar in
francophone literature and teaching methodologies for Historically
Black Colleges and Universities. (summer 1998)
- In 1968, Professor Rassias was selected by the
Student Government at
Dartmouth as the first Arthur Wilson Outstanding Teacher Award. In
1971,
he was further honored as one of ten teachers in the United States to
receive the E. Harris Harbison Award for Gifted Teaching by the
Danforth Foundation. He has also been cited by the government of France
with its Palmes Academiques for "originality in instruction and the
success of the enterprise." (1978)
- Since 1971, he has received numerous awards for
teaching, along with eight honorary doctoral degrees from the
following: University of
Bridgeport (Connecticut), Alma College (Michigan), Washington
University (Missouri), Plymouth State College (New Hampshire),
University of Detroit (Michigan), Hampden-Sydney (Virginia), Moravian
College (Pennsylvania), and Pine Manor College (Massachusetts).
- He received the Endowed Chair, William R. Kenan
Professor (1977)
- He was elected to honorary membership in the Alpha
Chapter (Dartmouth
College) of Phi Beta Kappa. (1990) He was a recipient of Dartmouth
College's
Inaugural President's Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Achievement
in 1991. Also from Dartmouth, he received the Robert A. Fish Memorial
Prize in Outstanding Teaching awarded by the Dean of the
Faculty. (1997)
- In 1978, Professor Rassias was the only language
teacher appointed to
President Jimmy Carter's Commission on Foreign Language and
International Studies. He was a member of the team that authored
the
draft for the final report on language calling for the development of a
national policy with guidelines for reviving foreign language study in
the section entitled "No Longer Foreign; No Longer Alien," in the
Report to the President, Strength Through Wisdom, November 1979.
- He was appointed (nationwide competition) to the
Robert Foster Cherry Chair at Baylor University in their "Great
Teachers Program," 1994. (Declined)
- In 1994, he was appointed to the Commission of the
Modern Language
Association of America on the study of service in the profession. In
1995, he was also elected to the Division of the Teaching of Literature
of the Modern Language Association, which he chaired in 1998.
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