Rising Russian Enrollments

[Josh Wilson]

The critical language money was created via a program called The National
Security Language Initiative, but is being distributed through programs that
were in existence when it was the NSLI appeared. 

It has gotten to some high school programs through FLAP:

$12.4 Million Awarded to School Systems to Promote Instruction of Critical
Foreign Languages
http://www.sras.org/flap_awards_2009


And is available to ungrads through things like the Boren Awards: 

NSLI Funding for Students of Russian
http://www.sras.org/nsli_for_students_of_russian 


Note: this last page on NSLI is a bit dated now - if anyone has updates for
it, I'll gladly implement them. 

Best, 



Josh Wilson
Assistant Director
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
Editor in Chief
Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
SRAS.org 
jwilson at sras.org



-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Devin Browne
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 6:12 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Rising Russian Enrollments

Might the uptick be linked to the incentive to study critical languages like
Russian?  Has the US governments critical language money filtered down to
undergrad students yet?  There is federal money "out there" for the study of
Russian (and other LCTLs deemed critical under Bush II) and I remember
seeing quite a bit of press for it a few years ago.  As a high school
teacher, I've been encouraging my students to keep studying Russian, that
there's money out there for students who continue their study of Russian,
even if it's not their actual major, is what I recall reading -- that they
just have to continue their studies of the language alongside their other
studies.  But is this true?  How does the $$ get from the feds to the
college students?  Is it through the university language departments?
 National centers for Russian studies?  What specifically does an undergrad
student do to access this supposed money?

Thanks to the person who brought up this topic.  It's interesting to hear
about institutions that are seeing increased enrollments!

Devin

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