Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Sharing structures and established consortia

1. Consortial course sharing : a look at the history and foundations of the big ten academic alliance CourseShare program

2. Scaling up sustainably : affordances and challenges of shared language courses

3. The shared course initiative : less commonly taught language collaboration at Columbia, Cornell, and Yale

4. Ten years of collaboration : the Duke–UVA–Vanderbilt consortium

Part II. Curriculum development and building program capacity

5. Language learning through three iconic cities : a shared approach to curriculum development in Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish

6. Articulating visions of south Asian less commonly taught language instruction for sustainable growth

7. Building less commonly taught language pipelines : sharing Russian language online with Kansas high school students

8. Expanding language programs via institutional partners : notes from a small island

Part III. Case studies

9. Out of challenges come opportunities : innovative collaboration in teaching east Asian languages

10. Sharing the teaching of Kaqchikel Maya across universities

11. Sharing African language courses : embracing initiatives with caution

12. Inter-institutional collaboration in Arabic language instruction : successes and challenges

13. The Portuguese language working group : a successful partnership

Part IV. Sharing strategies

14. Intercultural language learning communities : teaching strategies in the shared less commonly taught language classroom

15. Building a sustainable less commonly taught language community of practice through assessment-driven reverse design

16. Languages without borders : promoting equitable access to language education

17. Building a community of practice : pathways to less commonly taught languages sharing