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OSU forces foreign language cuts
Department planning to cut at least eight courses in fall, Italian instruction may end
Daniel Acee
Issue date: 5/27/08 Section: News
To commemorate the end of Italian at OSU, Baldridge will be hosting a mock funeral outside Kidder Hall from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today.
Some foreign language classes will attend, as will faculty, staff and stu-
dents involved in the FLL department.
All students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend the mock funeral.
"This is important stuff we do, and we need recognition for it," Baldridge said. "At the same time, we are building our identity as a department, looking to make sure that we are doing the best that we can for our students and for our College of Liberal Arts."
Wood stated that the department's long-term goal is to create a plan that will maintain the present languages, majors and minors offered.
In addition he hopes to eventually add new languages and minors once the budget situation has been solved.
"My job is to maintain morale within the department," Wood said.
"Being chair is not as fun as one would think. It's very stressful, especially with this situation at hand. But I am going to survive, and so will the department."
Daniel Acee, senior reporter
news@dailybarometer.com, 737-2231
Some foreign language classes will attend, as will faculty, staff and stu-
dents involved in the FLL department.
All students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend the mock funeral.
"This is important stuff we do, and we need recognition for it," Baldridge said. "At the same time, we are building our identity as a department, looking to make sure that we are doing the best that we can for our students and for our College of Liberal Arts."
Wood stated that the department's long-term goal is to create a plan that will maintain the present languages, majors and minors offered.
In addition he hopes to eventually add new languages and minors once the budget situation has been solved.
"My job is to maintain morale within the department," Wood said.
"Being chair is not as fun as one would think. It's very stressful, especially with this situation at hand. But I am going to survive, and so will the department."
Daniel Acee, senior reporter
news@dailybarometer.com, 737-2231
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pdxmazz
posted 6/03/08 @ 4:08 PM PST
The program goes back even earlier than that as I took 1st year Italian back in 1981. Shame to lose any of the Foreign Language courses. I've lived in two foreign countries and the US is woefully behind most of the rest of the world in being multi-lingual. (Continued…)
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