It is the time of the year to nominate a stellar student in your program for the annual ACTR Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award - PSRSLA-2026. Organized under the auspices of the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR), this award seeks to provide national recognition for one student per program who is either a junior or a senior in college. Each program chooses its laureate, and ACTR provides a certificate and congratulatory letter. Community colleges can nominate one second-year student. 

The nomination process is very easy, and the award is offered free of charge by ACTR as a service to the profession. The nomination deadline date is March 1, 2026.

For guidelines on submission criteria, please visit https://www.actr.org/PSRSLA_Guidelines. Please note that nominations must be submitted electronically at https://forms.gle/vphtz6bnbfsoLhgd9. Only one nomination will be accepted per Russian language program. Award certificates will be mailed to nominators by April.  

Questions? Suggestions? Please contact us at iza.savenkova@gmail.com

We look forward to receiving your nominations for PSRSLA-2026.

Izolda (Iza) Savenkova 
PSRSLA Co-chair