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>Subject: Re: #5986 Alarming Development -- Entire Languages Program Axed

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Actually, this is up on the Chronicle of Higher Education web page, on a
page that is free for all, under a rubric called Colloquy
(http://chronicle.com/colloquy/): This forum invites discussion.

Barbara Need
UChicago
Language Labs

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>>From: "Samuels, Jeff" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>>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
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>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
>fax: (410) 337-6295
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>web page:  http://faculty.goucher.edu/jsamuels
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