Elephant in the room

[Benjamin Rifkin]

I believe that funding doesn't respond to such events; funding follows enrollments and strategic planning. In the context of budgetary crises in higher education, I can't imagine that many institutions will be able to nimbly redirect resources from chemistry or English to Russian. I have seen enrollments in Russian in my own institution go up dramatically because our freshman orientation was fortuitously scheduled to occur on the days immediately following the arrests, allowing me to capitalize on the events in my presentation. 


Ben Rifkin 
The College of New Jersey 

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From: "Inna Caron" <caron.4 at BUCKEYEMAIL.OSU.EDU> 
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu 
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 5:25:31 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: [SEELANGS] Elephant in the room 

Does anyone have any idea as to how this situation with the Russian spies may affect Russian language programs in the U.S. universities? Common sense suggests that we should see some increase in funding, but common sense doesn't always prevail in these matters, does it? 

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