Rising Russian Enrollments

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In the last two years, three public high schools in Chicago have introduced Russian language instruction. Here in Bloomington, IN, a Russian club was started up at one of the two local high schools in August under the sponsorship of one of the German teachers, herself a native speaker of Russian. The club currently has 20 members who quickly voted to increase the frequency of meetings from once to twice a month. We expect that those numbers and other factors will enable us to win approval for introduction of regular instruction in Russian at the school beginning in 2011-2012. 

Enrollments in first-year Russian here at IU are also up by more than 50% with good retention at the intermediate and advanced levels as well.

Mark Trotter
Assistant Director/Outreach Coordinator
Russian and East European Institute
Indiana University
martrott at indiana.edu
(812) 856-5247

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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of H.P. Houtzagers [h.p.houtzagers at RUG.NL]
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 4:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Rising Russian Enrollments

The rise in Russian enrollments in the USA might be part of a wider
phenomenon: in Holland there is an increase, too.

Peter Houtzagers

Amy Adams wrote:
> Dear Colleagues ~
> The Holy Cross Public Affairs office is doing a story on our sudden increase in Russian enrollements at the college. Specifically, they are interested to know if the increase is part of a national trend (perhaps connected with new Obama administration, etc.). Can any of you report the same (perhaps unexpected) increase in your Russian courses? It would be very helpful to the story -- which may reach a national audience.
>
> Best, Amy Adams
>
>
> Amy Singleton Adams
> Associate Professor of Russian
> College of the Holy Cross
> Worcester, MA 01610 USA
> (508) 793-2543
> aadams at holycross.edu
>
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