Polyglot is a newsletter published twice-yearly by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. With Polyglot we strive to create a forum for exchange with our supporters and alumni and to provide information on departmental developments.

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Fall 2006

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Fall 2005

News from Yasunori Fujisaki:

Yasunori Fujisaki, who taught Japanese in FLL for four years as a graduate student in TESL, has accepted a position as a full-time instructor at Harvard starting in September. He will be in the East Asian languages and Civilizations Department (EALC), teaching at the beginning level initially. He has also agreed to teach in the summer intensive Japanese program at International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo this summer.

News from Selina Hickman:

As of August I have been employed at ROSS as a Youth Development Specialist. ROSS, in partnership with LCSNW, received at 3-year grant from United Way to implement New Youth Perspectives, a youth mentoring program, for Eastern European youth ages 12-18. 99% of the kids are Russian-speakers, and each one is set up with an adult volunteer with whom they meet 1 ½ hours a week. I work as a case manager for the youth and their families, provide support to volunteers, do cross-cultural presentations for organizations that work with Eastern Europeans, organize various activities and trainings for mentors and mentees as well as trouble shooting anything else that might pop up.

This is a great opportunity for those students who have the time and want hands on experience. Mentoring involves not only academic tutoring and support, but the chance to develop a deeper relationship, to be a role model, to offer emotional and social support to kids that are adapting to a new culture at the same time that they are experiencing the normal travails of being a teenager.

Selina Hickman
Youth Development Specialist
Russian Oregon Social Services
503.777.3437
shickman@emorgon.org