CONTENTS

From the Editor

SHAPING THE DEPARTMENTAL IMAGE

Who We Are and How They See Us: On Shaping an Image through the Other's Perception
Carmen Chaves Tesser

Strategies for Enhancing the Visibility and Role of Foreign Language Departments
Mark W. Roche

Making the Languages Department Indispensable to the University Community
David William Foster

DEPARTMENTS AS CENTERS OF CROSS-CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS

Racial Diversity, Romance Language and Literature Departments, and Interdisciplinary Programs
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Imagining Otherwise: Rethinking Departments of Foreign Languages and Literatures as Departments of Cross-Cultural Difference
Linda M. von Hoene

RUSSIAN TODAY

Thinking outside and beyond Our Present Circle of Ideas
Elizabeth Neatrour

“All Things Flow”
John M. Mohan

ADFL Award for Distinguished Service in the Profession: Dan Davidson
Zita D. Dabars

PROGRAMS AND PRACTICES

The Imperative of Integrating Language Instruction with Instruction in Other Fields
Richard J. Wood

Two Exempla of Foreign Language Programs
Jean A. Perkins

Meeting the Language Needs of an International City
Jacquelyn W. Green

World Languages at Richland College
Stephen K. Mittelstet

Reconfiguring Language Departments: Friendly or Hostile Takeover?
Peter Hoff and Mary Pinkerton