[lg policy] Regents give go-ahead for the development of three new majors and two new master's programs screen-shot-2019-02-10-at-2-22-25-pm Published Feb 11, 2019 3:36pm Updated Feb 11, 2019 3:36pm By Randall Eck RELATED STORIES College of Medicine's career fair looks to reach high school students By Mark Lawson 4 hours ago Job Shadow Program provides opportunity to get a taste of industry By Quincy Sinek 12 hours ago UA names Andrew Schulz as new VP of the Arts 12 hours ago The College of Education will house a new Master's of Arts in Education Policy. The Arizona Board of Regents approved three new majors and two new graduate programs for the University of Arizona. Editor's Note: This article was corrected to reflect that although the new programs hope to enroll students for the Fall 2019 academic semester, many are still undergoing internal review and may be delayed or never offered at all. The University of Arizona received approval to develop three new undergraduate majors
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Harold F. Schiffman
Professor Emeritus of
Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
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- Previous message (by thread): [lg policy] University language policy exposes societal fractures Sharon Dell 08 February 2019 Share Criticism by a senior government minister of the adoption this year by one of South Africa's top, formerly Afrikaans universities of English as the language of teaching and learning for all first-year students has re-stoked debate on a highly emotive issue, exposing identity-based fractures that persist in the post-apartheid society. In what has been described as a “surprising” Twitter post, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said he “publicly and in his personal capacity DISAGREED” with the phasing out of Afrikaans as a medium of teaching at the University of Pretoria. “As a country, you are shooting yourselves down. You will regret it in 30 years’ time,” he tweeted. Two days later, Mboweni tweeted a link to a 2016 article by language practitioner Khethiwe Marais which argued in its closing lines that Afrikaans should be used as a resource for the development of multilingualism as
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