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ISEEES Hires New Executive Director
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Announcement of a new Executive Director
The Search Committee of ISEEES is pleased to announce the University approval of the appointment of its top-ranked candidate, Jeffrey Pennington, as Executive Director of the Institute. Jeff has accepted the position and will effectively begin on January 14, 2008. (Barbara Voytek will be around to help with the transition so you can continue to contact her about ongoing events or issues.)
Jeffrey comes to us from Indiana University, Bloomington, where he has been serving as the assistant director/outreach coordinator of the European Union Center of Excellence, one of ten EU Centers in the US. Prior to this, he worked as assistant director/outreach coordinator of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana, one of the US Department of Education Title VI national resource centers. In addition, Jeff has experience in the non-profit management field in Bucharest, Romania, and international education experience in Eastern Europe. He holds a BS in Foreign Service from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and an MA in East European Studies from Indiana. He is fluent in Romanian and has a good command of Hungarian and Japanese. He acquired PhD candidate status in February 2007 at the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies at Kobe University (Japan). His dissertation topic is Japanese-East European relations in the interwar period
Learn Russian This Summer
Summer 2008: June 9 - August 15, 2008
Slavic 10: First-Year Russian / Slavic 20: Second-Year Russian
Each course meets Monday-Friday from 9AM-Noon and 1-2PM, and covers a
full year of Russian instruction over a 10-week session. Each course is
10
semester units.
Slavic 10 presumes no prior experience with Russian. Students with previous
experience in Russian who are unsure of their current skill level should
sign up for Slavic 20 and consult with the instructor on the first day
about their placement level. If necessary, a placement exam will be administered
by the director of the course. With questions specific to placement, contact
the course director, Dr. Arkady Alexeev, at arkalexeev@yahoo.com. These
small course sections are supervised and taught by native speakers of
Russian and advanced graduate student instructors. The program includes
oral and written drills, grammar exercises, special conversation sessions,
daily homework, and language laboratory assignments. Other activities
may include film screenings, lectures on Russian culture, discussions
at cafes, and/or field trips to San Francisco’s Russian cultural
locations.
Enroll through Berkeley Summer Sessions! To register, call 510-642-5611 or go to http://summer.berkeley.edu. For more information about these courses see http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/slavic/sum08description.html
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