Welcome to the website of the

National Committee for Latin and Greek.

The NCLG is a non-Profit organization sponsored and funded by numerous state and national associations.  It serves as a forum to identify nationwide needs and as a force for planning and implementing  new strategies and programs. Its Classics Alert Network  responds to both crises and opportunities in the Classics community.  The NCLG also maintains  a dialogue with its European counterparts.

THE NCLG  lobbies annually in Washington, DC, for legislation on language education and current initiatives as a part of JNCL and NCLIS.  A large part of the money donated to the NCLG goes toward JNCL-NCLIS dues.  These contributions thus keep the voice of the Classics in the national dialogue concerning language and education in a vital way.  Thank you for your support!

You can donate to the NCLG using this form.

Special Announcements

* The Joint Committee on the Classics in American Education invites nominations for the 2017 SCS Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the Precollegiate Level. The nomination deadline has been extended until Monday October 2^nd.

Up to two winners will receive a certificate of award and a cash prize of $500.  In addition, each winner’s institution will receive $200 to purchase educational resources selected by the winner. The winners will be honored at both the SCS Annual Meeting in Boston in January 2018 and the ACL Institute in June 2018, and they may select the meeting at which they wish to receive the award.

Teachers, full- or part-time, of grades K-12 in schools in the United States and Canada who at the time of the application teach at least one class of Latin, Greek, or classics at the K-12 level are eligible. Membership in the SCS is not required. 

Nomination guidelines can be found on this page.

* The Middle School Committee now has its very own website.  You can visit it by clicking here for wonderful information on why Latin is important for students at all levels.

* With many thanks to ACTFL for permission, here is Dr. Zarrow's interview in The Language Educator, published in the Spring of 2016.  Congratulations to Dr. Zarrow for being named ACTFL Teacher of the Year!

* NCLG, as a part of its Tirones Project, is hosting free webinars.  Please see this flyer for the general announcement.  Contact Mary Pendergraft for more information.

* At their June 26, 2014, meeting the National Committee for Latin and Greek honored University of South Dakota Distinguished Professor Emeritus Judith L. Sebesta for her service to the organization and to the promotion of the study of the ancient Greco-Roman world. She had served as NCLG Secretary for over seventeen years. When she retired from the University in 2013, after teaching for 41 years, she became the third person in the University’s history to receive the title “Distinguished Professor Emeritus.” In 2012 she had received the Monsignor James Doyle Humanities Teaching Award. 

* The Promote Latin video from the National Education Report is here on YouTube
(to download the video click here for wmv and here for mp4).

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