Announcements:
National Consortium Advisory Council Presentations Posted in Resource Center
Raising the Bar: NCIEC Support for IEPs Pursuing CCIE Accreditation
The National Consortium Renews Its Dedication to Diversity

The National Consortium is a collaborative network comprised of a National Interpreter Education Center and five Regional Interpreter Education Centers. Click here to see a map of the Regional Centers, or use the links in the banner and navigation bar. All six Centers are supported through grant funds from the U.S. Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration.

The goal of the National Consortium is to significantly increase the number of qualified and credentialed interpreters in the field by forging collaborative links and facilitating practice and product sharing among interpreter education service providers, practitioners, educators, and consumers nationwide. Major activities to be carried out through the collaborative effort include:

• Working with interpreter education programs across the country to increase the number, diversity, and work-readiness of interpreters entering the field;
• Initiating and expanding opportunities for pre-certified interpreters to advance to work-readiness and credentials;
• Promoting opportunities for certified interpreters to expand their competencies and ability to specialize in technical areas required by today's workplace, and
• Providing education and supports to consumers, both to self-advocate and to effectively access and utilize interpreter services.

The national network will be carried out collaboratively with already existing programs and networks, and with new ones being formed as needed to improve and expand interpreter education programs and outcomes nationwide.

We are now posting all presentations made by the NCIEC in our Resource Center! To visit the page and download presentations, please visit the Resource Center and click on NCIEC Papers & Presentations.

For updated information about the projects we're working on, including links to RFP's, please visit our Projects Page.