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WKU faculty approve further changes to foreign language requirement
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at Western Kentucky University will be able to use two years of a high
school world language to fulfill the university’s foreign language
requirement through the 2019-20 academic year, following faculty
approval Thursday.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>Faculty
members of WKU’s University Senate voted in December to approve the
change for the 2017-18 academic year to clear a backlog at the time of
roughly 7,000 students who hadn’t met the university’s foreign language
requirement.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>During their
monthly meeting Thursday, faculty senators initially considered
extending the policy to the 2018-19 academic year but ultimately decided
to extend it another year.</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:medium none;height:163px;margin:0px;padding:0px;width:650px;background-color:transparent"><ins id="gmail-aswift_0_anchor" style="display:block;border:medium none;height:163px;margin:0px;padding:0px;width:650px;background-color:transparent"></ins></ins></ins></div></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>Jerry
Daday, a sociology professor who proposed the original change in
December, urged faculty to take action to prevent future backlogs. He
said the university is expecting students to show up for orientation for
two weeks and needs to know where it stands.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>“The
reality is, if we do nothing, students show up in two weeks and our
existing world language proficiency requirement is on the table,” he
said.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>Previously, students had
to take either a 102-level course or take the STAMP test. That’s a test
that comes with a $35 fee and takes more than two hours to complete with
a computer.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>With the policy
change extended, faculty will now develop a foreign language placement
test for future incoming students. The test will determine what level of
language study students need or if they’re already proficient by the
university’s standards.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>Daday
previously told the Daily News that the test could be given in the
spring or summer before a student comes to WKU or at orientation. It
would also be cheaper and less time-consuming than the STAMP test,
taking only about 30 minutes to take.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>Over
time, the new approach could tame the demand for language instruction
at WKU, preventing future student backlogs altogether. The university
only offers 2,300 seats a year and sees more than 3,000 new students
enroll each year, Daday said Thursday.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>Faculty in the Department of Modern Languages will have until October 2019 to present the results of their pilot placement test.</p></div>
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also approved a resolution asking WKU President Timothy Caboni to
renegotiate a 20-year dining services contract with Aramark in exchange
for renovating the Garrett Conference Center.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>Faculty Regent Claus Ernst has previously said the deal will raise students’ dining fees.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>“The
problem I see with this is this is predominantly financed by dining
fees,” he said at a previous meeting. “So we currently have a $75 fee
for students who are not signing up for any meal plan. This will rise to
$150 in the fall. It will rise to $300 the fall thereafter. It will
rise to $350 thereafter, and it’s a per semester fee.”</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>Ernst
has said WKU’s Board of Regents didn’t approve the contract because its
bylaws give the president that authority. The contract was signed by
then-President Gary Ransdell.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>Anthropology professor Kate Hudepohl spoke out against the deal at the University Senate’s meeting Thursday.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only"><p>“This is a horrible contract that should not have happened,” she said.</p></div>
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