Fwd: More on academic programs

[Monica Macaulay]

Alyson Reed has asked me to post this on her behalf, since she’s not a member of the list.

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> From: Alyson Reed 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 4:12 PM
> To: 'Peter Austin'; ilat at list.arizona.edu
> Cc: David Robinson; intern
> Subject: RE: [ilat] More on academic programs
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> Peter:
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> If you’d like the LSA to create a program listing for your institution in the Directory, we are happy to do so. We have directed most of our attention on North American institutions, since that is the primary focus of the LSA’s activities, but as you observed, we do have listings from other countries. Please let us know and we can easily create a listing for your institution which you can then populate with the appropriate data.
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> And as you say, our existing category of “Language Documentation” is not as specific as “Applied Documentation and Revitalization.” If you think we need to add the latter as a separate category, please let me know. As I’m sure you can imagine, adding more specifics makes it that much more complex for both end-users and for those providing the information that populate the listings. We try our best to balance these competing goals.
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> Best,
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> Alyson
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> Alyson Reed
> Executive Director
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> From: Peter Austin [mailto:pa2 at soas.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 3:32 PM
> To: ilat at list.arizona.edu
> Cc: Alyson Reed; David Robinson
> Subject: Re: [ilat] More on academic programs
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> The LSA listing for "Language documentation" only returns two institutions that are not in Canada or the USA. Our MA in Language Documentation that has been going for 12 years and graduated over 150 students is not mentioned.
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> Notice that there is no information on Applied Documentation and Revitalisation which was Monica's original query to this list.
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> Peter
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> On 30 April 2014 19:36, Monica Macaulay <mmacaula at wisc.edu> wrote:
> Hi again folks,
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> I emailed with Alyson Reed, the Executive Director of the LSA, and she pointed out to me that the LSA’s website has a searchable directory of programs:  http://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/directory-departments-and-programs.  If you click on the link, it takes you to a form where you can search by name of program, university, highest degree offered, and graduate program specialization.  And yes indeed, “language documentation” is one of the choices.  I feel dumb - I should have known about that!
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> However, Alyson also pointed out that the resource is only as good as the data that’s entered, and they’ve been having a very hard time getting programs to update their info.  So if you’re one of the people who responded, check your department’s listing, and have the appropriate person update it if it needs it!
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> - Monica
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> Monica Macaulay
> University of Wisconsin
> Department of Linguistics
> 1164 Van Hise; 1220 Linden Dr.
> Madison, WI  53706
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> Prof Peter K. Austin
> Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics
> Director, Endangered Languages Academic Programme
> Research Tutor and PhD Convenor
> Department of Linguistics, SOAS
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