Enrollment query

[Dan Bayer]

At the Claremont Colleges (taught at Pomona College and Pitzer College with
students from all six schools in the consortium), enrollments in beginning
Russian courses for fall 1995 are down 50% from fall 1994, which were down
16% from fall 1993, which were down 34% from fall 1992, which were down 28%
from fall 1991. Well, you get the picture...  *groans*

We consistently ran three beginning Russian sections, but this fall there is
only one. There is a pending proposal to invigorate the Russian curriculum
through the creation of a Russian studies program, but at the heart of it
all is: will we get to keep the slots in the langauge programs/departments?

Any discussion on this (old, but recurring) topic would be interesting to
me.  $0.02.


Dan
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  Dan Bayer, FL Coordinator and Director, SILC
  Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 909/621-8982
  <dbayer at pitzer.edu> FAX: 909/621-8793