Rolling Enrollment Survey and Web Page
Margo
ST002958 at BROWNVM.BITNET
Sun Apr 27 14:00:23 UTC 1997
Dear Colleagues,
The decline in Russian enrollments in recent years has had serious
consequences for our field and remains a cause of great concern to us all.
The Subcommittee on Intra-University Promotion of the AATSEEL Committee on
Linguistics (formerly the "Slavic Linguistics Task Force") distributed an
enrollment survey via SEELANGS in Oct. 1996, the results of which were posted
on an AATSEEL web page (http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/databases/
enrollment-survey.html). This web page is designed to provide you with
immediate access to current and past enrollment statistics of comparably-sized
universities and to track the success of specific enrollment-boosting
strategies used by individual institutions. In order to keep this information
current we plan to update the page each fall and spring semester, so we would
like for you to respond to this questionnaire once again at this time, to
provide information on your spring-term courses. We would very much appreciate
your department's contribution to this survey, which is attached below. We
encourage departments outside the US to participate as well. Since the data
for each department participating in the survey will be posted on the web,
departments will have the option of submitting their enrollment figures
anonymously. However, whenever possible, identification of the institution
is preferable, since this will allow for more accurate geographical
comparisons.
Best regards,
Margo Ballou
Keith Langston
Subcommittee for Intra-University Promotion
INSTRUCTIONS FOR RESPONDING TO THE SURVEY:
All responses to the survey should be sent directly to Margo Ballou
(Margo_Ballou at Brown.EDU). Please respond by using the RESEND option if it
is available on your e-mail system. Using the FORWARD option introduces a
carat at the beginning of each line, which then has to be removed manually.
If you have already responded to the survey once, you need only send figures
for the current semester (or for both winter and spring terms for schools on
a trimester or quarter system). First-time respondents should send figures for
the entire 1996-97 academic year. We would also encourage departments which
have not responded previously to provide us with enrollment figures for
previous years; you may do this by obtaining the complete survey form from
the AATSEEL web page. Please indicate whether you would like to have your
department's enrollment figures posted anonymously.
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Russian and Slavic Language Enrollment Survey
Please answer all questions below; where information is unavailable or not
relevant, mark "N/A". Your responses will be posted on an AATSEEL-linked
webpage. Please send your response by e-mail.
I. HIGH-SCHOOL LEVEL PROGRAMS
1. What is the student population at your high school?
2. Is your school public or private?
3. Please indicate the number of students enrolled in the following language
courses at your institution:
First year 1996 1997 1998
Second year 1996 1997 1998
Third year 1996 1997 1998
Other (please explain)
4. In your estimate, how many of these students plan to continue taking Russian
in college?
1996 1997 1998
II. COLLEGE LEVEL PROGRAMS
1. What is the total undergraduate population of your institution?
2. What is the total graduate student population of your institution?
3. Is your institution public or private?
4. In your estimation, how many freshmen have arrived with some high school
Russian? Give an approximate answer for each year:
year 1996 1997 1998
5. Approximately how many students who enroll in Russian courses come with
some native knowledge of Russian?
year 1996 1997 1998
6. At your institution, is Russian taught:
a) In a language and literature department, such as a Department of
Slavic Languages and Literatures or a Department of Russian
b) Together with another major language group, such as Department of
Russian and German
c) In a language department, such as Department of Modern Languages
d) Other (please explain)
7. Please indicate the number of students enrolled in the following
language courses at your institution. Please
give figures for each term: for example, 1993 (F 31, S 27), or 1995 (1stQ
21, 2ndQ20,3rdQ20), or 1991 (F 13, S N/A). IF YOU HAVE USED ANY SPECIFIC
ENROLLMENT-BOOSTING STRATEGIES FOR ANY OF THESE COURSES, PLEASE ALSO
INDICATE FOR WHICH COURSE(S) AND WHICH TERM(S), AND DESCRIBE BRIEFLY THE
STRATEGY USED (e.g.,type of ad, promotional activity, etc.)
First year 1996 1997 1998
First year intensive 1996 1997 1998
Second year 1996 1997 1998
Third year 1996 1997 1998
Fourth year 1996 1997 1998
8. Specialized Russian language courses (e.g., literature in the original
language, business Russian, press & television, Russian for Research,
technical Russian, translation) (PLEASE ALSO INDICATE ANY
ENROLLMENT-BOOSTING STRATEGIES USED FOR SPECIFIC COURSES/TERMS):
type of course:
_______________ 1996 1997 1998
_______________ 1996 1997 1998
_______________ 1996 1997 1998
9. Other Slavic language enrollments (please also indicate any
enrollment-boosting strategies used for specific courses/terms):
a. Polish
First year 1996 1997 1998
Second year 1996 1997 1998
Third year 1996 1997 1998
b. Czech
First year 1996 1997 1998
Second year 1996 1997 1998
Third year 1996 1997 1998
c. Serbian/Croatian
First year 1996 1997 1998
Second year 1996 1997 1998
Third year 1996 1997 1998
d. Bulgarian
First year 1996 1997 1998
Second year 1996 1997 1998
Third year 1996 1997 1998
e. Ukrainian
First year 1996 1997 1998
Second year 1996 1997 1998
Third year 1996 1997 1998
f. Other modern Slavic language(s): ___________
First year 1996 1997 1998
Second year 1996 1997 1998
Third year & up 1996 1997 1998
g. Old Church Slavonic
First year 1996 1997 1998
Second year 1996 1997 1998
Third year & up 1996 1997 1998
Is OCS required for your graduate students?
for Russian/Slavic concentrators?
8. How many undergraduate majors/concentrators does your department have?
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
9. Does your department offer an MA program in
literature
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
linguistics
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
pedagogy
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
translation
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
other (please specify):
10. Does your department offer a PhD program in
literature
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
linguistics
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
pedagogy
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
translation
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
other (please specify):
10. Does your program offer any undergraduate courses on Slavic/Russian
mythology, Slavic/Russian culture, Slavic/Russian linguistics? If so, how
many students were enrolled in each? (please also indicate any
enrollment-boosting strategies used for specific courses/terms)
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
11. If not, are any such courses offered at your institution by other
departments or programs?
12. Does your department offer any adult education classes in Russian or other
Slavic languages? Please inidicate language and level, and any enrollment-
boosting strategies used for specific courses/terms:
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
13. Does your department offer any summer school classes in Russian or other
Slavic languages? Please indicate language and level, and any enrollment-
boosting strategies used for specific courses/terms:
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
_________________: 1996 1997 1998
Please indicate one of the following:
You MAY/MAY NOT identify my institution on the webpage when posting these
figures.
Please return to Margo Ballou, Margo_Ballou at brown.edu
Thank you!
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