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>From: "Francesco Scordato" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum"    <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re:      #5986 Alarming Development -- Entire Languages Program Axed
>Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:00:17 -0500

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There a [?] very a good article on the Chronicle:

http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i26/26a01401.htm

It is utterly incredible.

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> >From: "Samuels, Jeff" <[log in to unmask]>
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> >Subject: Alarming Development -- Entire Languages Program Axed
> >Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:34:45 -0500
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> Dear LLTI-ers,
>
> I am curious to hear people's reactions to the developments at Drake
> University, where the new president has fired the entire languages
> department and has orchestrated the abolition of the university's
languages
> requirement.  Who is this rogue president?  It's David Maxwell, who used
to
> head up the National Foreign Language Center!  I found out about this from
> an internal Goucher College listserv.  The article has been reproduced for
> your reference on my website:
> http://faculty.goucher.edu/jsamuels/maxwell.htm
>
> Definitely worth a read!
>
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> Jeffrey D. Samuels,
> Instructor, Modern Languages
> Program Coordinator
> Thormann International Technology and Media Center
> Goucher College
> 1021 Dulaney Valley Road
> Baltimore, MD 21204
> office: (410)337-6297
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