ASEEES Advocacy
- ASEEES urges Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to support funding for the High Education Act: Title VI/Fulbright-Hay 120(b)(6) for FY 2011. ASEEES letter to Secretary Duncan, April 19, 2011 (PDF)
You can take action through the National Humanities Alliance Action Alert. - ASEEES urges the Hungarian government to preserve the documents in its Historical Archives of Hungarian State Security.
ASEEES letter to the the Hungarian Ambassador to the US, dated Feb. 23, 2011 (PDF)
You can find more information and sign a petition here. - ASEEES expresses concern regarding University of Glasgow's proposal to close its foreign language programs, including Czech, Polish, and Russian.
ASEEES letter to the University administration , dated Feb. 16, 2011 (PDF)
You can keep up to date on the news on this Facebook page. You can sign a petition here. - ASEEES urges US Congress to support funding for The High Education Act: Title VI/Fulbright-Hay 120(b)(6) for FY 2011 and 2012. We strongly believe that this program is vital to the US global competence.
ASEEES letter to the House Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, dated Feb 15. 2011 (PDF) - ASEEES expresses grave concern for SUNY Albany's decision to close its foreign language programs, including Russian.
ASEEES letter to the president of SUNY, Albany, dated Oct. 18, 2010 (PDF)
Read the Chronicle of High Ed article.
Other Recent Advocacy Actions
- ASEEES urged Florida State University not to eliminate its undergraduate program in Russian and MA program in Slavic. We were delighted that these programs were saved.
ASEEES letter to FSU in April 2009 (PDF)
- ASEEES President William Taubman sent in July 2009 a letter to Russian President Dmitrii Medvedev, expressing our association's support for the American Historical Association's statement of concern over the recent creation of a Commission to Counteract Attempts at Falsifying History to Damage the Interests of Russia. To date we have not received any response from the Russian President's office.
ASEEES letter to Dmitrii Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation (PDF)
American Historical Association's letter to Dmitrii Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation (PDF)
- ASEEES expressed concern regarding the closure of the New York Public Library's Slavic Reading Room
- Russian Visa Restrictions Hurt Scholarship
ASEEES Policy on Advocacy
ASEEES is committed as an organization to register its collective protest in matters concerning: 1) issues of academic freedom in our field, whether these affect individuals or institutions; and 2) the threatened elimination or reduction of resources and/or institutions that are of importance to our field.
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies