IMMEDIATE
PRESS RELEASE
AFGLC
ANNOUNCES NEW INTERNATIONAL
STRUCTURE
Tampa, Florida
Professor Chris P. Tsokos, President of the American Foundation for Greek Language and Culture, AFGLC, a public not for profit educational organization, a twelve-year-old foundation headquarter in Tampa, Florida, announces that it has incorporated a new administrative structure in order to carry out its educational mission worldwide.
AFGLC
has as its aim to renew and enhance awareness of the contributions of the Greek
heritage in the West by educating the American university student
about Hellenism, the mother-culture of democracy, in all its
forms. To this end, it establishes Interdisciplinary Centers for
Hellenic Studies (ICHS) at selected campuses across the United States.
Each of these includes professorships, named for the individual donor and
endowed in perpetuity, in at least the following fields: Greek language
and literature, Greek history, Greek philosophy, Greek
culture under any aspect, and Byzantine history and Orthodox
religion.
Centers already exist at the University of South Florida, a tier-one research university, and The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, twice voted the best state liberal arts college in the country. Others are under negotiation at a number of campuses across the country. The AFGLC plan has drawn high praise from distinguished scholars, administrators and public servants.
Because
of the success of the ICHS plan in the United States, Greeks
and lovers of the Greek heritage in other countries are eager to establish
AFGLC centers and Interdisciplinary Centers. In order to
facilitate the spread worldwide of its mission to preserve and enhance the
teaching of Hellenism to the leaders of tomorrow, the Board of
Directors of AFGLC have established as an umbrella organization, the International
Foundation of Greek Language and Culture (IFGLC).
IFGLC will foster the same educational mission as AFGLC in our center in Colombia and other South American countries like Argentina, Chile and Brazil, where negotiations are under way to establish the foundation. It will serve to unite the very active center in Athens and soon-to-be-opened ones in Crete, Patras and Thessaloniki, Greece. It will embrace other European centers as they are established, and include the ones in Australia that have been requested by the Greek community on that continent. It will include centers in Toronto, Montreal and London, Canada, and any others that may be opened anywhere in the world. And it will include the twenty-two centers of the American Foundation (AFGLC) in the United States, whose identity and mission remain unchanged. The attach network identifies the new administrative structure.
