jobs in Russian

[Olga Yokoyama]

I recommend to study Richard Brecht's 1995 "Russian in the United
States", a most comprehensive major (over 200 pp) study of the field
filled with statistics of most relevnt sort to anyone interested in R lg
instruction in the US.

On Tue, 31 Oct 1995, Emily Tall wrote:

> As New York State goes through its current budget crisis, departments are
> being looked at to see if they prepare people for jobs. I plan to
> write a short paper for our Dean demonstrating that, yes, Russian is
> needed in the real world. I think it could be useful to all of us if
> seelangers could post one or two items telling where their undergraduates
> are using their Russian (their undergraduates who now graduated, of course.)
> Several of ours have taught English in Moscow, one is working at the
> American Embassy, and another is at the U.N. At the recent AAASS conference
> I was told of a young man who just opened an office of United Way
> somewhere north of the Artic Circle for American companies who wanted
> to contribute to the local economy (they were located there). Someone
> else mentioned ads in the Moscow Times, but we don't get it. Thanks,
> fellow seelangers! Emily Tall
> mllemily at ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
>