The Ackland Art Museum, http://www.ackland.org/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Ackland Art Museum's collection offers teachers a broad range of programs and materials that support the development of their and their students' skills and interests. A varied selection of teacher workshops help teachers learn and create new ways of using works of art to improve their students' writing, critical-thinking, and other skills. Materials based on works of art in the Ackland's collection emphasize object-based learning. Teachers may schedule visits to the museum for their students, participate in Mini-Workshops for Busy Teachers and summer workshops, and borrow slides, videotapes and curriculum kits on Asia. The "Five Faiths Project," a multiyear initiative with the goal of using the Ackland Art Museum's collection of religious art as a starting point for helping people explore five of the world's great religions--Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism will include a variety of activities, will begin in the Spring of 2000. This project will include an educational web site.

Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, http://www.duke.edu/APSI/ Duke University
APSI supports and coordinates academic endeavors involving Asian cultures and societies undertaken by scholars and students at Duke University and in the Southeast region of the United States.

East Asian Collection, Perkins Library, http://library.duke.edu/ias/eac/ Duke University
Staffed by both a Japan and a China specialist (see staff page), the collections house materials related to China, Japan and Korea. The librarians will work with classes studying Chinese and Japanese language and society who wish to visit the library. To arrange a visit, please call 919-600-5844. Maintains an extensive series of links to resources on China, Japan and Korea, including newspapers, political information and popular culture.

Curriculum in Asian Studies, http://www.unc.edu/depts/asia/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Curriculum in Asian Studies has several missions including language instruction, promotion of an understanding of the history, cultures and societies of the people of East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Asian Diaspora in the United States; an interdisciplinary B.A. in Asian Studies; promotion of the highest quality of research by all the Asian Studies faculty in their various disciplines; presentation of public programs on Asian topics to campus and community audiences, and support of improved K-12 education related to Asia in the state of North Carolina and the southeast region.

North Carolina Japan Center, http://www.ncsu.edu/ncjapancenter/ North Carolina State University, Raleigh,; North Carolina
The North Carolina Japan Center works to inform the people of the state about modern Japan and its people. It also provides information and resources for Japanese citizens living in North Carolina. There are now seven chapters of the Center at other North Carolina universities which spread the effort more uniformly across the state. Has a collection of Japanese videos which it will loan.

NCDPI Division of Curriculum & School Reform http://community.learnnc.org/dpi/
The purpose of the Division of Curriculum & School Reform is to develop, maintain, and revise curriculum for early childhood through grade twelve. The Division develops the North Carolina Standard Course of Study, creates curriculum products in all subject areas for teacher use, and coordinates many professional development opportunities.

TACAS - Triangle Area Chinese American Society of North Carolina http://www.nctacas.org/
TACAS supports programs that promote Chinese language and cultural exchange among Chinese and with people of all ethnic, racial, and professional backgrounds. This includes working closely with Raleigh Chinese Language School, and supporting the TACAS Arts Center, the New millennium Playhouse, and Triangle Area Peking Opera Club. TACAS also offers a Book Club, Youth Group, Youth Symphony, and Rainbow Dance Club.