Daily Digest for 29-08-94
Dear Friends!
Now I came back at Russia.I want say many many our friends
*Thank you* for meeting with us,for very nive and warm letter
and invitation,which we received,when I was in America.
My trip was very interestin,very busy and very productive.
We can discuss many questions with our project "Friends and Partners",
we had very more meeting with people ,which are our subscribers,
peoples from Tennessee University, Washington State University.
Today we have very more fascinate plants for collaborate together.
Thank you again for many people,which do this trip *SO interesting,
SO wonderful and SO useful*
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RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-28 August 94 Sender: physCOM@world.std.com
Subject: FinancialAid for Russian students???
#02-28 August 94 Sender: "Dr. Fran Winfrey 305/621-5681ext221"
(WINFREF@mail.firn.edu)
Subject: Kiev Ukraine Teacher Wants Emmployment
#03-28 August 94 Sender: THEGARTY@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU
Subject: Request
#04-28 August 94 Sender: GREGORY1@VAXB.MIDDLESEX.AC.UK
Subject: Contacting Mark Bates
#05-28 August 94 Sender: "Foundation for Russian American Econ.
Cooperation" (fraec@u.washington.edu)
Subject: Responses on Translation Software
#06-28 August 94 Sender: KEITHRDH@delphi.com
Subject: Daily Digests
#07-28 August 94 Sender: irexnet (irexnet@info.irex.org)
Subject: Russian Teaching Assistants Program
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Sender: physCOM@world.std.com
Subject: FinancialAid for Russian students???
Hello,
I am seeing any information on financial aid/grants that may be available
for citizens of the former Soviet Union to study business in America.
One of my Russian friends would like to go to graduate school in America
in the fall of 1995. Does anyone know of any grants or of any American
universities that may offer programs for Russian students? Please
respond via e-mail: physCOM@world.std.com
thank you,
Jane Piercy
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Sender: "Dr. Fran Winfrey 305/621-5681ext221" (WINFREF@mail.firn.edu)
Subject: Kiev Ukraine Teacher Wants Emmployment
A highly educated teacher in the Ukraine wishes to live with an American
family for one year. She speaks fluent English and is willing to take care
of children and/or clean in exchange for room, board and "spending money".
For more information please communicate of winfref@firnvx.firn.edu
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Sender: THEGARTY@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU
Subject: Request
Friends, my wife has many relatives who live in Beltsy,
Moldova. Does any one know of an internet node in that
city? Thank you for your help. Tom Hegarty, University
of Tampa, Tampa, Florida. thegarty at cfrvm.cfr.usf.edu
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Sender: GREGORY1@VAXB.MIDDLESEX.AC.UK
Subject: Contacting Mark Bates
We are trying to contact Mark Bates, who made an enquiry about real estate
developments in Russia in June. We are currently engaged on a project
researching homelessness in Moscow and Sofia and thus would like to contact
him. If you don't have his email address, can a request be put out for it?
Many thanks,
Greg Andrusz and Martin Taylor
gregory1@uk.ac.mdx
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Sender: "Foundation for Russian American Econ. Cooperation"
(fraec@u.washington.edu)
Subject: Responses on Translation Software
Many thanks to all of those who responded to my request for info on
Russian English/English Russian translation software. At the request of
several people I thought I'd post the highlights for those interested
since many responses came to me directly. Evidently the March 94 issue
of Windows Sources Magazine reviews this kind of product, and while it
didn't touch on Russian, it does provide the names of some companies.
GT Global - this was actually on the warning list. Not recommended.
Global Link - In Virginia at 1-800-255-5660.
Stylus - Manufactured in Petersburg. No other info.Company is called
Prompt.
Global Linguistics Institute - In San Diego. Comes recommended.
Telephone is 619-535-4889.
That's the stuff. Thanks
Chris Davis
Russian-American Foundation
Seattle
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Sender: KEITHRDH@delphi.com
Subject: Daily Digests
I am concerned at the lack of any word from "friends" over the past
weeks. Is there a problem? We are now ready to bring up a WWW application
for cruise line operations which we envision including Baltic/Caspian/Far
East areas. Are we too late to use the "friends" net?
Thanks, K.
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Sender: irexnet (irexnet@info.irex.org)
Subject: Russian Teaching Assistants Program
RUSSIAN TEACHING ASSISTANTS PROGRAM
R T A P
The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) is
pleased to introduce the Russian Teaching Assistants Program
(RTAP), a new program sponsored by the United States
Information Agency, which will pair up to 40 Russian
participants with U.S. two- and four-year colleges and
universities (including community and technical colleges) to
serve as teaching assistants beginning January 1995 for six-
to eight-month programs. IREX has administered academic
exchanges with the former Soviet Union and Central and
Eastern Europe since 1968, and promotes innovative formats
for scholarly and policy cooperation with the region.
The program will provide a unique opportunity for U.S.
host institutions to enhance their curriculum and add
cultural diversity to their classrooms and campuses as well
as facilitate an open exchange of pedagogical methods and
approaches. The Russian participants will be immersed in
the U.S. academic environment, providing them hands-on
experience where they will take an active part in the
teaching process and become familiar with the most up-to-
date U.S. teaching methods, aids, curricula and technology.
The teaching assistants may serve in the departments
of, but not limited to, Education, ESL and Russian Area
Studies. Teaching assistants may also serve as resource
persons and guest lecturers in courses related to Russian
society and culture, political science, international
relations, sociology and history, or via other innovative
formats.
Participants will also enroll in two or three courses
per semester, for credit or non-credit, to broaden their
understanding of their fields of specialization and/or
American culture and society.
APPLICATION AND PLACEMENT PROCESS
The initial review of Russian applicants will be
carried out in Moscow by U.S. education specialists. U.S.
two- and four-year colleges and universities interested in
hosting Russian participants will submit completed
applications to IREX by Friday, October 7, 1994. A
selection committee consisting of four U.S. post-secondary
educators will review the applications of prospective host
institutions and the Russian finalists and recommend to USIA
the best possible matchings based on the following:
1) disciplinary interests and strengths of each applicant
and host institution;
2) availability and appropriateness of courses in which
participants can enroll while working as teaching
assistants;
3) host institution's ability to waive fees and tuition as
well as provide cost sharing for housing;
4) strength and appropriateness of the host institution's
plan to utilize participants in a teaching capacity and
as resource persons outside the department affiliation;
and
5) overall distribution of teaching assistants at
institutions that achieves not only wide geographic
distribution but also reflects America's academic and
cultural diversity.
THE RUSSIAN PARTICIPANT
Russian participants will initially be tested and
screened by U.S. education specialists in Moscow, and
selected as finalists in Washington by IREX and USIA program
staff. Participants will be:
1) secondary or post-secondary educators and graduates
of pedagogical institutes or universities;
2) primarily specialists in the field of English as a
foreign language, and possess a sufficient command of
English to perform teaching assistant tasks.
FINANCES
USIA provides the following financial support for the
Russian participants:
TRAVEL: Round-trip international airfare to host
institution
HOUSING: USIA in most cases will pay no more than
50% of the institution's standard housing
costs. Institutions that do not have on
-campus housing, such as commuter colleges,
are required to provide significant cost
sharing for housing.
STIPEND: Modest monthly stipend
GENERAL: Book, computer, and "settling in" allowance
INSURANCE: Medical insurance with maximum $50,000
coverage
Host institutions are required to fully waive tuition
and fees for two or three courses per semester and cost-
share housing expenses. U.S. hosts are asked to provide
access to libraries, archives, department events and
university activities. USIA funding is not designed to
cover the full cost of the participants' program and the
extent of cost sharing offered by the host institutions will
be a major criterion in assessing the competitiveness of the
applications.
To request an application form or receive additional
information about the program, please contact Susan Pelton
at:
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD
1616 H St., NW, Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 628-8188 Fax: (202) 628-8189
E-mail: irex@info.irex.org
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