reminder: nominate your best student

[Alla Smyslova]

Dear
Colleagues:

The deadline for nominating an award-worthy student in your program is only TEN
days away--
March 1. Please do not miss this opportunity to recognize your best
students.

Join 50 US programs that nominated their top students for the annual ACTR
Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award last year, and recognize your top
junior or senior student submitting your nomination this year.  
 
This is a
free program offered to US Russian Departments and Programs.  Organized
under the auspices of ACTR (the American Council of Teachers of Russian), the
PSRSLA seeks to provide national recognition for our star junior and senior
students--those students who best embody an enthusiasm for and love of
things Russian.  ACTR provides this program as a service to the
profession.  
 
For your
convenience, the guidelines are posted below.
If you have any question, please contact me at as2157 at columbia.edu
 
Thank you in advance for your
nominations,
Dr.
Alla A. Smyslova, 
Chair,
ACTR Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award Program
Senior
Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures  
                                                 
Columbia
University
1130
Amsterdam Avenue, Hamilton Hall 708, MC 2839    
                                                                  
New
York, NY 10027
 
ACTR Post Secondary Russian Scholar
Laureate Award
GUIDELINES

1. Deadline for nominations is March
1, 2014.

2. Nominations are accepted in electronic
format only, via e-mail to me at 
     as2157 at columbia.edu
 
3.
Nomination letters can be in the body of the e-mail or sent as an attachment. 
    Nomination letters should include the
following information:

A. Full name of student as it should
appear on the Gramota. Nominees should
be juniors or seniors.
                                                                                                                                                             
;         Only one student can be
nominated from each institution. While larger Russian programs frequently  have more than one outstanding student, in
order to preserve the integrity of the award, no more than one student at a given institution can be nominated to receive the
PSRSLA.

B. Description of why this student
most deserves this award, i.e. how the student promotes the study of Russian
and models the behavior of a committed Russian student. The student need not
have the top GPA, nor be a Russian major, but should demonstrate an active
dedication--in course work, outside activities, attitude--to the study of
Russian language and culture.

C. Name and contact information of
the nominator who must be a member of ACTR* (at least one nominator has to be a
member of ACTR). Since the nomination should reflect the consensus of the
program or department, your letter should be submitted over the signature of
the program chair, director, or DUS.

[*If
you are not a member of ACTR and would like to join, log on to the ACTR
Membership web site https://membership.actr.org/ With your membership
you receive the ACTR Newsletter as well as a subscription to the Russian
Language Journal--a peer-reviewed publication that explores all aspects of the
Russian language and welcomes submissions.]

3. Award certificates will be mailed to nominators during March so that they
arrive prior to any departmental award ceremonies.
 4. When submitting a nomination letter, please provide a full mailing  

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