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Graduation Ceremony for P.S.58 and P.S. 84 students at the French Embassy in New York
Today we celebrated the 5th grade graduates of P.S. 58 and P.S. 84’s French dual language programs at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York. What an emotional graduation! Congratulations to all the 5th grade students! Read more
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French Heritage Language Vitality in the United States
French heritage language speakers in the United States face multiple challenges as they attempt to maintain French as a living language, despite the fact that French is one of the most commonly studied foreign languages in the country (second in the list of most common languages offered in elementary and secondary schools after Spanish, and… Read more
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Vartan Gregorian, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York, endorses Unequal Partners: American Foundations and Higher Education Development in Africa
Fabrice Jaumont’s study is a welcome addition to the still small but growing corpus of research on American philanthropy in Africa, a sector that has yet to be fully analyzed or understood. Read more
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[FR] Portrait dans la revue Le francais dans le Monde pour le Dossier “Filières bilingues: deux langues pour réussir”
Retrouvez mon portrait, “États-Unis : Fabrice Jaumont multiplie les cursus franco-anglais”, dans le dossier spécial “Filières bilingues: deux langues pour réussir”, publié dans la revue le français dans le monde. Read more
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The influence of U.S. foundations in Africa and the reinforced dominance of English
The discourse on priorities in African higher education is placed in a contested terrain, where grantors and grantees not only negotiate one another’s perspectives but also contend with inhospitable national contexts. In certain African countries, governments do not necessarily encourage the development of universities or international donors who are not overtly cooperative. Much to their… Read more
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Speakers of French in the United-States
The latest U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey reports that 1,301,443 people in the U.S. speak French at home.This includes speakers of French dialects, such as Patois and Cajun, who are over 5 years old. In fact, French is the fifth most common non-English language spoken in U.S. households, after Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Tagalog. Read more
FABRICE JAUMONT 