Nov. 1-2 Faculty & Administrator Workshop Held at Yale and The University of New Haven

On November 1-2, Yale's REEESNe network teamed up with the University of New Haven's Ukraine, Russia, & Eurasia Studies group to hold its 4th annual workshop for faculty, staff, and advanced graduate students on the topic of "Diversifying Outreach, Diversifying Enrollment" in REEES fields. REEESNe sponsored approximately 30 in-person attendees from across the northeastern U.S., while another 35 signed up to attend online. This iteration of the workshop focused in particular on outreach to high schools and the ways in which secondary-postsecondary collaborations can boost student interest and recruitment for the languages, histories, politics, and cultures of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia.

Educators and administrators from 15 different institutions throughout the northeast and beyond shared their pedagogical and outreach experience on roundtables and practical panel sessions, and enthusiastically engaged in discussions spanning fields such as Slavic languages, literature, history, and national security. Well received by participants, the workshop drew praise for its hybrid organization and focus. As one attendee put it: "everything worked perfectly well: the way the panels were organized (with regular breaks), the organization in general (emails, instructions, maps) as well as the way online and offline panels were combined." The workshop was sponsored by REEESNe's generous donor, by the Yale MacMillan Center's REEES Program, but Ukraine, Russia, & Eurasia Studies at the University of New Haven, and by the Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. As video from the event becomes available, it will be posted to the workshop's event page.