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The Bard-Smolny Study Abroad Program (BSAP) for North American students is based at Smolny College, Russia’s first liberal arts college.  BSAP is the only program in Russia to offer visiting North American students a broad range of liberal arts courses along with Russian as a Second Language (RSL).  The main goal of the Bard-Smolny Program is to provide North American students with a rigorous and rewarding academic, linguistic, and cultural experience that will advance their level of competency in the Russian language and give them the unique opportunity to take a diverse set of courses in the liberal arts.  Since the program is run within Smolny College, there are innumerable opportunities for cross-cultural exchange and dialogue.  Students from North America sit side-by-side with Russian students in the classroom, participate in student clubs, organizations, and volunteer opportunities with their fellow Smolny classmates, and interact directly with the faculty of Smolny College. 

The Program Manager of the Bard-Smolny Study Abroad Program is a professional, full-time administrator employed year-round by Bard College and based at Smolny College in St. Petersburg.  The Program Manager reports to the Assistant Director of the Institute for International Liberal Education (IILE) at Bard College and works hand in hand on a daily basis with the administration of Smolny College, particularly the Dean of the College and the Associate Dean for International Students. S/he supervises the daily running and management of the Bard-Smolny Study Abroad Program during the fall and spring semesters and the Summer Language Intensive (SLI) in June, July and August.

BSAP hosts between 30 and 35 North American students each semester, as well as during the SLI, at Smolny College. The Program Manager is responsible for all non-academic aspects of the program as well as crisis management, and, in cooperation with the Associate Dean for International students, supports students’ academic activities. Specific tasks include supervision of two full-time local staff members, providing student support of all sorts, work on program development, recruitment and admission, accounting, as well as organizing and running program orientations three times per year. The Program Manager also acts as a liaison between the IILE and Smolny College, including work with Smolny’s Dean’s Office, Registrar, IT Services, Financial Office, Admissions Office and Development Office. The Program Manager is expected to hold regular office hours; some weekend and evening hours are required.   

The successful candidate will be fluent in Russian, will have experience working and studying in Russia or the former Soviet Union and will hold an American BA degree or higher. S/he will possess a friendly and professional manner, will have significant accounting and budgetary experience, will be familiar with databases, and will have excellent writing and research skills.  Accuracy, attention to detail, and comfort working in a fast-paced environment with a team of committed professionals are crucial. A demonstrated understanding of and commitment to the ideals of a liberal arts education and cross-cultural exchange, as well as experience working with young people, are also important. Candidates should have a minimum of one to two years of administrative experience. Salary for the position covers two visits to Bard College each year, one in January and one in August, and is commensurate with experience. Please see http://www.smolny.org for more information. 

Please send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and the names of three professional references by email to recruit@bard.edu, subject line: Smolny Program Manager-9209. Review of applications will begin immediately. Bard College is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from individuals who contribute to its diversity.  

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She began keeping diaries at 16 but did so avidly after 1862, when she married Tolstoy. She never stopped writing in her journal until her death in 1919, as the Bolshevik revolution threatened to overwhelm Yasnaya Polyana, the 4,000-acre estate where she had lived for more than half a century. "There was a meeting to decide how best to defend Yasnaya Polyana against looting," she writes in her final entry. "Nothing has yet been decided. Carts, oxen and people are streaming down the highway to Tula." History, as it were, threatened to destroy everything she loved.

Jay Parini
The Guardian, Saturday 5 December 2009

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Россия - Швеция, начался второй период. Пока 1:0

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