The Middle East Studies Center

The Middle East Studies Center (MESC) is one of the 19 US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Centers (NRC), and is consistently funded. Since its designation as a National Resource Center in 1988, it has been renewed in the 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006, and 2010 cycles, for a total of 22 years.

MESC is a facilitator of Middle East studies on local, regional, national, and international levels, providing teaching, resources, services, and consultation to a number of key constituencies: students of all ages, collegiate faculty, alumni, business leaders, military and government, P-16 educators, and others. MESC supports scholarship at OSU by funding faculty lines, supplementing the Middle East Studies library collections, providing between 15-25 Foreign Language and Areas Studies Fellowships every year, leveraging university funds to co-sponsor academic and educational events, engaging freshman at OSU through the First Year Experience Program, and aiding OSU's minority recruitment efforts at local schools and community colleges.

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