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<div class="gmail-subscriber-preview"><p>Faculty
at Western Kentucky University are considering whether to extend a
policy that allows students to use two years of a high school world
language to fulfill the university’s foreign language requirement.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>In
December, faculty members of WKU’s University Senate approved the
change to address a backlog of roughly 7,000 students who hadn’t
completed the requirement. Now that the backlog is cleared, faculty
members are considering whether to extend that policy into the 2018-19
academic year.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>“I frankly think
it’s immoral for us to have a requirement we can’t staff,” said
sociology professor Jerry Daday, who proposed the change last semester.</p></div>
<div id="gmail-tncms-region-article_instory_top" class="gmail-tncms-region gmail-hidden-print"><div id="gmail-tncms-block-1471953" class="gmail-tncms-block"><ins class="gmail-adsbygoogle" style="display:block;text-align:center;height:163px"><ins id="gmail-aswift_0_expand" style="display:inline-table;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:medium;height:163px;margin:0px;padding:0px;width:650px;background-color:transparent"><ins id="gmail-aswift_0_anchor" style="display:block;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:medium;height:163px;margin:0px;padding:0px;width:650px;background-color:transparent"></ins></ins></ins></div></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>Following
a committee’s preliminary approval Monday, the extension will next go
before the full University Senate later this month for a vote.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>Daday
said the goal of the extension is to allow time for development of a
language placement test that would be given to future incoming students.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>Previously,
students had to demonstrate their foreign language proficiency by
either completing a 102 level course or by taking the STAMP test. The
STAMP test comes with a fee and takes more than two hours to complete
with a computer.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>However, under
the new placement exam, a student’s score would determine what level of
foreign language study they need or even if they need further study.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>“If they test high enough, then they would have fulfilled our requirement,” Daday said.</p></div>
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<div id="gmail-tncms-region-article_instory_middle" class="gmail-tncms-region gmail-hidden-print"></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>In
theory, the placement test would be given in the spring or summer
before the student comes to WKU or at orientation. The placement exam
would be cheaper and much shorter than the conventional STAMP test,
taking only about 30 minutes to complete, Daday said.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>Over
time, Daday said, the new approach could bring the demand for language
instruction in line with the faculty’s ability to supply it. Future
student backlogs would be prevented entirely.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>The University Senate next meets at 3:45 p.m. March 22 in the Faculty House outside Cherry Hall.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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