The Consortium emphasizes activities in the so-called critical languages, and those languages are prominent on the above list. Unlike some funding agencies, the Consortium neither dictates which languages should be funded nor eliminates languages from consideration.
Some examples are in order.
Intermediate and advanced textbooks for Chinese developed at Columbia and Princeton are the leading works in the field. New textbooks for Turkish and Vietnamese will be the first such works in many years. A joint Dartmouth Princeton project is completely rewriting the major textbook for Modern Greek used in this country and developing audiocassettes and computer resources to accompany the text. One could cite additional examples in Arabic, Bengali, Czech, Finnish, Indonesian, and Russian.