SAVE Slavic-OSU

[Howard I. Aronson]

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>Below some general facts about the Department of Slavic & East European
>          Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University
>
>...  is one of 26 Slavic Ph.D. granting programs in the United States, and is
>     the ONLY ONE in the state of Ohio.
>...  has pioneered foreign study in Russia, Romania, and other East European
>     nations since 1960.
>...  in addition to its comprehensive offerings in Russian has taught Albanian,
>     Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian,
>     Polish, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, and Ukrainian.
>...  pioneered individualized, self-paced language instruction which has served
>     as a model for many other language programs at Ohio State and across the
>     country for nearly two decades.
>...  was the first to introduce courses in any foreign culture at The Ohio
>     State University.
>...  is pro-active in the business community (where many of our alumni are
>     now working).  Members of the faculty have taken numerous business
>     delegations to and regularly host groups from Russia and Eastern Europe.
>...  in the past 15 years has placed all but two of its Ph.D. recipients in
>     university positions (despite the current heavy competition), and several
>     students nearing completion of the Ph.D. have already secured tenure -
>     track positions.
>...  takes pride in its outstanding faculty, staff, and students, among whom
>     are the recipients of numerous international, national, and university
>     awards for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and administration.
>...  sponsors an annual Russian language camp for undergraduate and graduate
>     students from across the state and beyond, and conducts an annual
>     competition for high school students of Russian in Ohio.
>...  offers a wealth of educational activities and workshops for students
>     of Slavic and East European studies under the auspices of the OSU Russian
>     and Romanian Clubs, the Russian Choir, the OSU Slavic honorary society
>     Dobro Slovo, and, last but not least, its own Russian House, in which
>     students of Russian may choose to live in an immersion environment.
>...  established OSU's Center for Slavic and East European Studies, one of
>     9 fully-funded National Resource Centers for Slavic and East European
>     Studies in the nation.
>...  established the Hilandar Research Library, the largest repository of
>     medieval Slavic Cyrillic manuscripts on microform in the Western
>     Hemisphere, attracting scholars from across the globe.
>                         * * * * * * * * * * * *
>Very soon we will be posting additional statistical information about our
>department.  Thank you.
>

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Howard I. Aronson                              Office: 312-702-7734
Slavic Langs & Lits, Univ of Chicago           Home:   312-935-7535
1130 East 59th St                              Slavic: 312-702-8033
Chicago, IL 60637                  e-mail: hia5 at midway.uchicago.edu