[lg policy] US: Colleges strive to make forgeign languages relevant

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From:  edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


USA Today



Colleges strive to make forgeign languages relevant



Timothy A. Bennett strives toward a new vision for the foreign
language department. "You can think of a university as a little
continent full of different kingdoms," said Bennett, chair of the
foreign languages and literatures department at Wittenberg University,
a Lutheran liberal arts college in Ohio. "I'd prefer that language
departments suffused the curriculum rather than just be another
kingdom among many kingdoms."



Full story:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-07-24-IHE_languages24_ST_N.htm

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