Those going include Paul and Lisa McCuistion, Kari Bowley, Josie Davis, Lisa Taunton, Brian Teutsch, and David Yarbrough. The Foreign Studies Scholarship Fund has been established at Southern Arkansas University to assist SAU students defray the costs of studies abroad. In December 1993, Southern Arkansas University signed an agreement with Moscow State Pedagogical University for a program of student exchanges that would allow SAU students to live and study in Moscow. In the future, students may have opportunities to study in Latin American countries as agreements are reached with universities there. A faculty committee will select the candidates for the awards.
Contributions are, of course, tax-deductible as allowable by the law.
During fall semester 1993, faculty and students of the department gained access to a daily news source on events in Russia via the Internet. The texts of Radio Free Europe broadcasts to Russia arrived via e-mail delivery on this worldwide network to the office computer of Professor David Sixbey, who then transferred them to the Walz Study computer for student use. In 1993-94 several courses were added to the University curriculum dealing with Russia. Students may now earn up to twelve academic credit hours in Russian studies. Two Russian language courses are available, taught each fall by a Visiting Professor from Moscow State Pedagogical State University.