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SCOLA Featured In Language

By Anonymous

For Immediate Release
July 26, 2002
MCCLELLAND, Iowa— The SCOLA Television Network will be featured in the August edition of the prestigious and definitive foreign language publication “Language Magazine.”

A major article detailing the history and up-to-date overview of the world’s largest foreign language broadcasting network will be written by Steven Donahue, features Editor for Language Magazine. Language Magazine gained national prominence shortly after the events of Sept. 11, 2001 when Donahue developed a software-based method for teaching the Pashto language to U.S. military forces serving in Afghanistan.

Donahue’s instructional video is being featured on SCOLA to help those studying Pashto.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

Build It & They Will Come
“During hot Midwest summers, in Iowa, they say, “Corn’s knee high on the Fourth of July.” But surprisingly, sprouting out of acres of yellow-tasseled corn is the world’s largest educational language broadcasting system—SCOLA (Satellite Communications For Learning). Giant satellite dishes rise like a crop of massive single-eyed Cyclops. Mechanical objects reminiscent of sculptor Jean Tinguelay, whose art inspired SCOLA’s founder, Jesuit priest Father Lee Lubbers, S.J. to sculpt satellites dedicated to language and cultural learning. Two decades ago, SCOLA started as a small experiment in America’s heartland to seed a language bank that has now blossomed into a venue for broadcasting 52 of the world’s languages with an educational format. Lee Lubbers sums up the SCOLA language crusade,” It would be a tragedy for the world to become monolingual.”

SCOLA is an international, educational, not-for-profit organization based in McClelland, Iowa. It transmits news, documentary, cultural and educational programming from over 70 countries in 52 languages via satellite and over the Internet via live video streaming.

All programs are shown unedited and in the original language and are broadcast to hundreds of universities, 6,000 elementary and high school classrooms and to language schools of the U.S. government.

In operation for nearly 20 years, SCOLA’s mission is SCOLA’s mission is to help the people of the world learn more about one another; their cultures, their languages and their ideologies. SCOLA emphasizes the importance and effectiveness of modern information technology as a tool in overcoming barriers to global understanding and will remain at the forefront of its application

          SCOLA programming has proven instrumental in numerous educational fields including foreign language study journalism, international business commerce and education.

          SCOLA was the first TV network in the nation to offer 24 hour programming per day, seven days per week of news in foreign languages. A few commercial, for profit firms have followed SCOLA’s lead but none have yet come close to SCOLA’s offerings.

          The full article will be available at the magazine’s website at: http://www.languagemagazine.com.’

For further information contact John Millar at 712-566-2202

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