increasing enrollment survey

[David Hart]

Date sent:      Fri, 26 Sep 1997 10:19:39 +0100
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From:           "J. Rouhier-Willoughby" <jrouhie at pop.uky.edu>
Subject:        increasing enrollment survey
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I.  General institutional information:

1.  Is your institution a 2 or 4 year college, or university?
    4yr

2.  What is the approximate size of the student body?
    28,000

3.  Does your department grant graduate degrees?  Up to what level?
    Not in the Slavic section; German MA

4.  Does your institution have a language requirement?  If so, what is it?
    Yes, sitting time: complete 4 semesters

5.  Which Slavic languages does your department offer?
    Russian, Polish

6.  Up to what level are these languages taught?
    Russian 4 years, Polish 3 years

7.  What non-Slavic languages does your department offer?
    German, various Scandinavian lgs

8.  Have you found that these languages compete for the students who would
take a Slavic language? No

9.  Number of faculty in Slavic in your department. (6 + 1 on leave)

10. Number of faculty in non-Slavic areas in your department.
    11
11.  What are the possible areas of concentration or specialization
available in your department?  Please break down by undergraduate and
graduate programs.
    Russian: language BA
    German: language BA, Literature or Lang. Acq. BA
12.  Would you like the name of your university to remain anonymous?
    No


II.  Internal curricular changes:
1.  Has your department instituted any changes in course
offerings,
requirements for the degree, or areas of concentration in order to attract
more students?  Please describe course offerings before and after these
changes went into effect.  Which of these changes, in your opinion, were
best received by students?
    Our problem is that we have too many students. Students serving
as missionaries in Russia for 2 years return to upper division
courses. Our lower division courses, however, are much like at other
universities: we seem to have bottomed out however and are
experiencing some small increase there.
2.  Has your department changed the pace or content of traditionally
offered courses in order to attract more students?  In which cases has this
strategy proven effective?
    no
3.  Does your institution grant additional credit for intensive language
study?  Are these intensive courses popular among students?
    Yes, we have intensive language courses taught in St. Petersburg
every summer. They are popular but expensive.
4.  Do you find that study-abroad opportunities attract students to your
department?
    Yes, but not many.
5.  Describe any other relevant curriculum changes related to increasing
enrollment.
    see no. 1 above.

III.  Outreach programs:

1.  What activities does your department sponsor to attract students from
within the institution?   Have these activities proven successful?
    We have an outreach program to High Schools which has not been
studied as to its use as a magnet.
    We sponsor a Russian language fair every year for high school
students and anecdotal evidence has it that we do see some students
from that program in our classes.
2.  What activities sponsored by your department are open to area schools
or the community at large?  Have these activities proven successful?
    see above

3.  Describe any other relevant outreach strategies you have found successful.


IV.  Evaluation

1.  How does your department define a successful year in language classes?
    a) can we cover all our classes
    b) are our graduates being placed
    c) are enrollment numbers holding steady

2.  How does your department define a successful year in other classes
related to Slavic?


3.  How does your department define a successful year overall?
    in addition to 1 above,
        d) are faculty content, teaching and publishing
        e) are faculty spending time in Russia
        f) are students excited about Russian and their prospects
            with a BA in Russian?
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Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby           telephone:  (606) 257-1756
Department of Russian and Eastern Studies      fax:  (606) 257-3743
1055 Patterson Office Tower                email:  jrouhie at pop.uky.edu
University of Kentucky           URL: http://www.uky.edu/~jrouhie/
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
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