EXPLANATION OF PERCENTAGE EAST ASIA
EASC determines percentage of time spent on East Asia by quantifying faculty/staff time spent on research, teaching, outreach, and administrative tasks devoted to East Asian initiatives.

EXPLANATION OF LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY SCALE USED IN BIOGRAPHIES
EASC utilizes the Inter-Agency Language Roundtable (ILR) scale to rate the faculty and staff language proficiency levels in this biographical information appendix. The five-point ILR scale, formerly called the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) scale, is used by numerous government agencies, such as the Foreign Service Institute and the Defense Language Institute. The following are descriptions of the five levels employed:

1. Elementary Proficiency (Level 1 or S-1):
   Able to satisfy routine travel needs; understand simple questions and statements; makes frequent mistakes in pronunciation and grammar but is able to be understood by a native speaker used to dealing with foreigners.
    
2. Limited Working Proficiency (Level 2 or S-2):
   Able to satisfy routine social demands and limited work requirements; can handle basic conversation on topics such as current events, family, and autobiographical information with confidence; speaks with an accent but is usually intelligible.
    
3. Professional Working Proficiency (Level 3 or S-3):
   Able to speak the language with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate effectively in most formal and information conversations on practical, social, and professional topics; can discuss particular interests with reasonable ease; has vocabulary which is broad enough that he or she rarely has to grope for a word.
    
4. Full Professional Proficiency (Level 4 or S-4):
   Able to use the language fluently and accurately on all levels normally pertinent to professional needs; can understand and participate in any conversation within the range of own personal and professional experience with a high degree of fluency; can handle interpreting from and into the language.
    
5. Native or Bilingual Proficiency (Level 5 or S-5):
   Has speaking proficiency equivalent to that of an educated native speaker; has complete fluency in the language, such that speech on all levels is fully accepted by educated native speakers in all of its features, including breadth of vocabulary and idiom, colloquialisms, and pertinent cultural references.