ACTR

[Dustin H.]

Dear Rebecca,

You seem to have missed the entire point of this discussion.  Let me
make myself clear: the issue I raised was with the programs for
*students* and no where did I mention that there was a problem with
the program for *teachers*.

Here is some of the information that I have received from one of my
'informants', and rest assured I will have more to follow:

"... I still wanted to chime in on the whole ACTR business. I was an
exchange student going the other direction back in the days when ACTR
still had a hand in managing the Freedom Support Act program. All my
experiences with their staff in DC were negative during the program.
The people I had to deal with were inflexible, unhelpful, provided
information late, and generally did not appear interested in making
the students' experience everything it could have been. I must also
say that there might be a bigger pattern here, since the IIE which
administers the East-European and post-Soviet Fulbrights fits the same
mold..."

Best,

Dustin



Dustin H. wrote:

>No, I have not been on ACTR's programs;
>
Then this is a rather silly conversation.

As a 2005 participant in the ACTR/ACCELS Summer Russian Language
Teachers Program (Moscow), and a 2007 Fellow in their Advanced Research
and Language Training Program (Odesa), I give the organization a very
high rating indeed.  I found their programs to be of very high quality,
and, as others have said, their staff members both in-country and back
in D.C. were helpful, knowledgeable, efficient, and extraordinarily
generous with their time and effort (well above and beyond the terms of
their contract).  If anyone wants a more detailed testimonial, I will be
happy to provide it offlist.

Rebecca Stanton


-- 
Dustin Hosseini

"Earth laughs in flowers."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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