The year 1976 marked more than the U. S. Bicentennial for those interested in global studies in America. It represented an auspicious moment in the evolution of the government’s “predisposition” toward support of language, area, and international studies in the United States. In that year Phase III of the NDEA Title VI Centers Program took on a revised USOE outlook upon the concept of outreach and an intensified federal commitment to the promotion of outreach activities as an integral part of the programs of the four-score Foreign Area and International Studies Centers around the nation. The Bicentennial Year was also important for the Congressional passage of the Education Amendments of 1976, which provided for the Citizen Education for Cultural Understanding (Section 603) Program. This program, which would hold promise for the development and/or expansion of global studies particularly in the elementary and secondary school classrooms of the nation, commenced in 1979 the award of federal assistance to projects that sought to “increase the availability to students in the United States of information about the cultures, actions, and policies of other nations so that these students might make more informed judgments with respect to the international policies and actions of the United States.”