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While Lithuanians all over the world celebrate March 11 - Day of Restoration of Independence of Lithuania, Jurate Kazickas shares her memories of that day 26 years ago.

Every year, usually in the beginning of March, US celebrates National Foreign Language Week. It aims at making the United States aware of the need for and importance of foreign language study through celebration of languages.

Yale University’s Program in Baltic Studies invites applications for a post-doctoral fellowship of variable duration (four to nine months during the 2016-17 academic year) in the following fields: law, economics, business and finance, environmental policy, political science, international relations, and history.

Bradley D. Woodworth, Baltic Studies Coordinator at the Yale University, announced with great pride last week that starting 2016-2017 academic year, the Joseph P. Kazickas Post-Doctoral Fellowship for citizens of Lithuania will be available every year instead of every other year.

In mid-December 2015, as a board member of the Women's Refugee Commission, Jurate Kazickas spent five days traveling through Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. Kazickas Family Foundation's Director shares her thoughts with the WomensNews.

Kazickas Family Foundation together with A. Kazickas Lithuanian School thanks The Lithuanian Foundation for $3,700 support. In 2015 Lithuanian Foundation issued a $110,000 grant to Lithuanian Heritage Schools and US Lithuanian Educational Council distributed it among the schools.

On January 29-30th a seminar for the Lithuanian Heritage Schools' teachers was held in Boston. Seminar speakers, Vilnius University (ALTE- the Association of Language Testers in Europe member) linguistics department specialists, Joana Pribusauskaite and Rita Migauskiene, taught teachers how to test schools' students' proficiency levels using newly created tests.

The LKMT/LLPT (Lietuvių Kalbos Mokėjimo Testas/Lithuanian Language Prificiency Test), issued by the Vilnius University (ALTE - the Association of Language Testers in Europe member) on behalf of Lithuania’s Ministry of Education, offers official accreditation of mastery of the Lithuanian language for residents of countries in which Lithuanian is not the official language.

Ninety eight years ago, February 16, 1918, an act, proclaiming the restoration of an independent State of Lithuania was signed.

John Kazickas, Dr. Joseph and Aleksandra Kazickas' youngest son, shares his father's memories about this significant day: 

For the fourth year in a row Kazickas Family supports Lithuanian Heritage Schools in the US through A. Kazickas Grant Program.

This year $88,420 have been distributed among 21 schools that have asked for support.