MLA Enrollment Survey has been released

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Dear SEELANGers:

The latest MLA Enrollment Survey has been released.

You'll find the full survey here:

http://www.mla.org/pdf/2009_enrollment_survey.pdf

There are news stories about the survey here:

http://chronicle.com/article/Enrollments-in-Graduate/125645/

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/12/08/languages

Russian, the only Slavic or East European Language in the top 15), saw  
a nice increase from 2006 from 24,845 enrollments to 26,883  
enrollments, or an 8.2% increase, and stands as the 10th most commonly  
taught language in the survey (behind Spanish, French, German, ASL,  
Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, and Latin.

Bigger increases were observed in ASL (16.4%), Japanese (10.3%),  
Chinese (18.2%), Arabic (46.3%), Portuguese (10.8%), Korean (19.1%)  
and "Other Languages (20.8%).  French, German, Italian, Latin all had  
smaller increases, but increases nonetheless.

Best wishes to all,

Ben Rifkin
The College of New Jersey



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