ERI Teach Korea Corps: Sponsors

East Rock Institute, created over fifty years ago to cultivate cultural understanding between East and West, with special emphasis on the relationship among Korea, Korean Americans and the United States, is dedicated to continue the study of the world-wide Korean Diaspora through extensive research, seminars, conferences, teacher training, publications, database websites and curriculum development.
Over the years, ERI has sought to give teachers at the secondary and college levels the tool to teach Korean culture and history in their respective schools. Efforts have included sponsoring the Summer Institute of Korean Culture and East Asian History; teacher training in American public schools, including special programs in Fairfax country, Virginia and West Hartford, Connecticut public schools; the Korean History and Culture Curriculum Development Project and Teacher Training at the National Association for Korean Schools., the publication of curriculums on Korean culture and history for high school and college students, and development of related teaching website.
Now well-established internationally and recognized among academic –cultural institutions, ERI continue to uphold its motto: “To search, to learn and to serve.”

one of the 11 graduate and professional schools affiliated with Yale University, is an interdenominational and completely nonsectarian school for theological training. The faculty is drawn from the major Christian traditions, and the students represent almost forty denominations and groups. Instruction is provided in the history, doctrines, and polity of all the major church bodies.
The Divinity School pursues its mission through three principal activities: (1) it enables women and men to prepare for the lay and ordained ministries of the Christian churches; (2) through its own programs and through the participation of members of its faculty in programs of the Graduate School, it shares in the education of those who will become scholars and teachers on the faculties of theological schools and departments of religious studies; and, (3) in conjunction with other professional schools of the University, it equips persons anticipating professional service in education, law, health care, social work, community organizations, public life, or the arts to understand more fully the theological basis of their vocations.
The Divinity School offers programs of study leading to the degrees of Master of Divinity (M.Div.), Master of Arts in Religion (M.A.R.), and Master of Sacred Theology (S.T.M.). Programs for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) are offered by the Department of Religious Studies in the Graduate School.
Since 1971, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, an Episcopal seminary, has been affiliated with Yale Divinity School. Episcopal students come under the care of the dean of Berkeley Divinity School for spiritual formation and counseling, but are not differentiated from other Yale Divinity School students.
The Institute of Sacred Music was founded in 1973. It is affiliated with both the School of Music and the Divinity School.
A number of Divinity School faculty hold joint appointments in the Department of Religious Studies; others regularly participate in the doctoral program, and some departmental faculty regularly offer courses in the Divinity School.
Other schools of Yale University are Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Medicine, the Law School, the School of Art, the School of Music, the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the School of Architecture, the School of Nursing, the School of Drama, and the School of Management.

The Overseas Korean Foundation is a non-profit organization affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. (South Korea) Its establishment was agreed upon at the No. 1. Overseas Koreans Policy Committee' on May 3, 1996, followed by the announcement of the "Overseas Koreans Foundation Legislation" (Law No. 5313) passed on March 27, 1997. Then on October 30 of that year, the Foundation was inaugurated and put into official operation.
The Overseas Koreans Foundation is now home to some six million overseas Koreans. All its efforts have been focused on various cooperative programs, since these initiatives can be a great help to overseas Koreans and serve as a driving force for the Korean community. Charged with a strong sense of duty, members from the six different departments of the Foundation are cooperating with each other to open up the high synergy potential for all ongoing programs.

The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven was established in 1928 and is the largest philanthropic institution in Greater New Haven region of twenty towns and over 600,000 people. They are among the oldest and largest of more than 650 community foundations in the United States. Their seventy-five year record of grantmaking, financial stewardship and service to donors is at the heart of philanthropic efforts to improve the quality of life for residents in Greater New Haven area.

Since the Center for Information on Korean Culture (CIKC) was established in March 2003, it has been at the forefront of the Understanding Korea Project. To achieve the Project's goals, CIKC will carry out five major tasks: Correct errors about Korea in foreign textbooks; develop and distribute the Understanding Korea Series in foreign languages to promote Korea; carry out surveys about foreigners' perceptions of Korea; offer training in Korean culture to foreign teachers; and sponsor civic organizations and academies that engage in the CIKC Understanding Korea Project. On top of this, CIKC has been correcting inaccurate coverage of foreign nations in Korea's textbooks to ensure that Koreans' knowledge of foreign countries is based on fact.