Arabic-L:GEN:NMELRC Report

[Nathan Arp]

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Date: 19 Nov  2004
From:nmelrc at byu.edu
Subject:NMELRC Report

Middle East Languages in Higher Education
Saturday, November 20, 2004

The status of language in higher education is a matter of serious
concern for the nation. Language coordinators responsible for
less-commonly-taught languages are typically lecturers and therefore
second-class citizens in their departments.  Every year tenured
language faculty retire and are replaced with lecturers (if at all).
No less of a concern, how are we to attract promising graduate students
to a field that appears to promise no future? Can we trust the academy
to correct itself on this crucial matter? Come listen to the National
Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC) report the results of its
surveys of students and teachers of Arabic, Modern Hebrew, Persian, and
Turkish and its study of hiring trends over the past 40 years.  NMELRC,
with the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, the American
Association of Teachers of Persian, the American Association of
Teachers of Turkish, the National Association of Professors of Hebrew,
and the Berkeley Language Center, is sponsoring a joint session for
those attending the annual meetings of ACTFL (American Counsel of
Teachers of Foreign Languages) and MESA (Middle East Studies
Association). The two audiences will be linked with live video. Plan on
participating at either location or via the Internet. In order to
facilitate broadcast of the event, the MESA meeting will be held on the
UC-Berkeley campus.

MESA (San Francisco): 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM, 155 Dwinelle Hall, UC-Berkeley
ACTFL (Chicago): 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM, Williford B, Chicago Hilton

We encourage you to attend or participate via the Internet. Directions
for getting to Dwinelle Hall or for logging on to the webcast will be
posted shortly at:

	http://nmelrc.org/

For more information on the ACTFL or MESA meetings see:

	ACTFL: Nov.19-21, 2004, http://actfl.org/
	MESA: Nov. 20-23, 2004,
http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/MESA04/mesa04.htm

National Middle East Language Resource Center
Brigham Young University
214 HRCB
Provo, UT 84602
nmelrc at byu.edu
801/422-7192

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