Endangered Programs on the AATSEEL Web Page

[Sibelan Forrester]

David Galloway, who otherwise maintains the AATSEEL web page on intensive
language programs, has initiated a new web page giving information about
Russian or Slavic programs in North America that are under attack.  So far
the page offers background on the situation of the Russian Literature
Department at Cornell University, with contact information (and live e-mail
links) to make it easy for others in the profession to respond in the most
effective way.

AATSEEL members who work or study in programs that are now facing cutbacks,
or programs that have faced them in the past in ways that are still
instructive, are urged to send information to the Acting Webmistress
<sforres1 at swarthmore.edu> or to David <djg11 at cornell.edu> for inclusion on
the page.

The page is located under he new link "Urgent News in the Profession;" its
specific URL is
<http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/intensive-programs/endanger.html>


After a few problems with the server in Pittsburgh, the page is being
updated; any comments on its (slightly) new format, and especially any
offers of collaboration, are gratefully welcomed.

Other new or updated sections include:

"About the Organization" -- with particularly useful specifics from
Executive Secretary Jerry Erwin about membership options, dues and
registration fees, at
<http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/AATSEEL/about.html>

"Jobs and Careers outside the Profession" -- Jane Gary Harris has compiled
the discussion at the 1996 Conference Roundtable where Connie Barrett,
Connie Cherok Flanagan, Paul Klanderud and Frank Poulin discuss their
experience finding and working in jobs outside of academia, with some very
helpful suggestions for job-seekers or their advisors, at
<http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/jobs/non-ac.html>

And links to Program Director David Birnbaum's pages with the latest
information about the 1997 Conference in Toronto.


Sibelan Forrester
Modern L & L
Swarthmore College
Acting AATSEEL Webmistress