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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is an excellent list! It pains me how ignorant some of these comments are. My kid received four federally funded scholarships to learn Russian as it is deemed a language essential to our national security. One scholarship included a 7-week immersion study in a Russian speaking country. These programs were started by President Bush as we did have enough U.S. citizen interpreters who spoke Arabic during the Gulf war. Unfortunately, the current administration is gutting these programs. The three universities that still have the Russian Flagship program are Georgia, Wisconsin and Indiana. All three offer amazing programs in Russian. Virginia Tech, UCLA, and UNC lost their Flagship funding last year but are still excellent. Arizona State, Columbia and Chicago are excellent.

[quote=Anonymous]Academic here who studied Russian and a few other off-the-beaten-track languages:

Below I've pasted a list of universities that receive federal funds (at least until recently) for Russia and Central/Eastern Europe, including a number of state flagships. Any of them will have serious courses including language training. I'd second the recommendations for Middlebury & Georgetown as well.

But I'd also recommend that your kid consider a double major, or majoring in something else and minoring in Russian studies. On its own, it's pretty limiting. Language skills are useful but AI may erode that some of that utility. And it will be impossible to achieve real fluency without extensive in-country experience, which is going to be tricky for the foreseeable future with Russia.

Title VI-funded National Resource Centers/FLAS-Granting Programs for Eastern Europe and Eurasia

Arizona State University — The Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies
Harvard University — Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Indiana University — Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute
Indiana University — Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center
Stanford University — Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
The Ohio State University — Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
University of California, Berkeley — Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
University of Illinois — Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
University of Kansas — Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies
University of Michigan — Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — The Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies
University of Pittsburgh — Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
University of Texas at Austin — Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison — Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia[/quote][/quote]
Just so you are aware, it is the Biden administration that cut 1/2 the language programs, including Arabic at Maryland….give “credit” where credit is due.[/quote]

I am well aware of the funding situation, thank you. The NSLI-Y scholarships that my child received have been jeopardized by the current administration. The Flagship programs are not high school programs, they are college programs, and yes, the funding for the Flagship programs were reduced at the end of the Biden administration save money.  4 of the 8 Russian Flagship programs were cut.  But back to high school programs, it does not appear that NSLI-Y is sending kids abroad anymore — they did not open applications this fall although they took applications for their virtual programming. Foreign language acquisition has not been a funding priority in recent years but the budget cuts this year have practically been a death blow. I’m sorry you took offense to my post and responded politically. We are where we are with the budget and each administration has its priorities.[/quote]
Thank you for acknowledging that the Biden admin is the one responsible for cutting the college critical language flagships in 1/2, and that neither democrats nor republicans are good at funding this — all to pay for, literally, a couple more missiles. [/quote]

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