Website for college Russian enrollments, jobs/careers of grads with degrees in Russian-related NATIONAL COLLEGE LEVEL DATABASE FOR RUSSIAN and RUSSIAN - RELATED PROGRAMS In response to discussions on listserves and in meetings of professional studies

[John Schillinger]

NATIONAL COLLEGE LEVEL DATABASE FOR RUSSIAN and RUSSIAN - RELATED
PROGRAMS
    In response to discussions on listserves and in meetings of
professional organizations as to the need for college-level data to
better serve the profession, the Committee on College and Pre-College
Russian (CCPCR), in cooperation with AATSEEL, AAASS, and ACTR,  has
established the following new data bases now available at its website
(plug CCPCR into Google to get to the site, or
enter <www.american.edu/research/CCPCR>).

    The two categories now available to receive information from the
profession are:

1) College/University Level enrollments in 1st and 2nd Year Russian
  This data will be collected for the fall semester of
each academic year only, and annual lists and totals will be saved on
the site for trend comparisons, as is now the case with the pre-college
Russian census on the website.  The site is now ready to receive input
from the fall 2002 semester.
Data from your program should be e-mailed to: ccpcr at american.edu

2) Jobs/Career Path List.  This list will provide a national database of

actual jobs and career paths (including graduate school) taken by degree

program graduates.  The list will depend upon voluntary submissions, but

will provide programs across the country with much-needed information
about the actual career paths taken by graduates who have a
major/minor/concentration in Russian or a degree combining Russian and
some other discipline.  Information about graduates of programs
(BA/MA/PhD) from the past ten years to the present will be posted to
focus more on the more on more recently-taken paths.

 Until the present time, the CCPCR website has focused primarily upon
providing annual census data for pre-college programs.  These new
college-level bases will expand the site's contribution to the
profession in keeping with the intent of AATSEEL, AAASS, and ACTR, when
those organizations jointly created CCPCR in 1984.

 The existence of these new bases will be announced in upcoming
newsletters of CCPCR's three  sponsoring organizations, and individuals
and programs will be encouraged to participate by e-mailing information
to ccpcr at american.edu.  Any suggestions related to categories, structure

of data display etc., will be given close consideration.  The two new
databases will begin accepting data from this point on, in the hope of
establishing a list of programs and graduates that will be large enough
to begin to be of use to the profession by fall 2003.

Note also that AAASS has an annual data base of degree program graduates
(BA/MA/PhD) in AAASS-related disciplines--including language and
literature--at it site at
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/


John Schillinger
Chair, CCPCR
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John Schillinger

Dept. of Language and Foreign Studies

4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW

Washington, DC 20016-8045

Phone: 202/885-2395 Fax 202-885-1076

Weekend phone 540/465-2828 Fax 540/465-2965

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