[lg policy] U. of Arkansas Cuts Core Curriculum, Eliminating Foreign-Language Requirement

[Harold Schiffman]

May 2, 2010, 10:50 PM ET

U. of Arkansas Cuts Core Curriculum, Eliminating Foreign-Language Requirement

In response to a new state law aimed at easing the transfer of
students from two-year to four-year institutions, the University of
Arkansas at Fayetteville is reducing the general-education
requirements that all students in its Fulbright College of Arts and
Sciences must complete, regardless of their majors, from 66 credit
hours to 35, the Associated Press reported. The changes eliminate a
foreign-language requirement, reduce science requirements, and require
only college algebra, which the college's dean, William Schwab,
characterized as "high school-level stuff." Mr. Schwab met with
language faculty members last month to reassure them that he intended
to minimize the new requirements' impact on their departments.


http://chronicle.com/blogPost/U-of-Arkansas-Cuts-Core/23649/
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