Borne of Project TIEM.Online
The National Center is one successful outgrowth of Project TIEM.Online’s grant-funded activities (2000-2005). It is housed within the ASL Program at Northeastern University. A second outgrowth of the original Project TIEM.Online is the now independent, fully NEU-sustained ASL Graduate Program at Northeastern.

Legacy of Project TIEM.Online
From 2000-2005, Project TIEM.Online successfully achieved its funded grant objectives.

• Design Curriculum for Interpreting Educators
• Offering Courses for Interpreting Educators
• Curriculum for Mentoring: Design
• Curriculum for Mentoring: Offering
• Resource Website

Most notably, two curricula, one for training mentors and one for educating interpreting faculty, were developed following extensive research and input from the field. Both have been successfully integrated into self-sustaining programs in Northeastern’s College of Professional Studies, forming the core of the ASL Graduate Program. Although no longer part of the current (2005-2010) funding activities, the ASL Graduate Program is committed to supporting current NIEC and NCIEC activities through dissemination and implementation of developed products and opportunities. They offer support to the current grant, offering avenues for disseminating up-to-date findings, research, and resources created by the Consortium to students in the programs, the future faculty of interpreting education programs.

In 2005, Project TIEM.Online applied for Department of Education funding to coordinate and evaluate the activities of five other RSA-funded regional centers, to conduct National Needs Assessments, to provide technical assistance, and to provide educational opportunities for interpreter educators. Funded for five years (2005-2010), Project TIEM assumed the responsibilities of the National Interpreter Education Center.