When Monika Megyesi was growing up in Romania during the despotic reign of President Nicolae Ceausescu, she remembers her mother speaking of the United States as a land of opportunity. Today, like ...

It’s clear from declining enrollment in foreign language courses in colleges and universities across the country that students are losing interest in language learning. As a result, institutions of ...

Nearly one year after its release, a report on foreign language and higher education issued by an ad hoc committee of the Modern Language Association is still provoking discussion—some of it ...

One of Indiana University’s oldest foreign language programs was abruptly put on hiatus, with no indication of when — or if –— it will resume. The Honors Program in Foreign Languages (IUHPFL) is an ...

Schools in Belmont Cragin, Lake View, Little Village, Pullman, Edgewater and the East Side are adding language programs aimed ...

For 67 years, the Department of Education has administered grants to universities to create centers devoted to foreign languages and area studies, a field focused on the study of the culture of a ...

National data shows that foreign language offerings have declined in the United States over the past six decades as well as more recently. Even if the supply of foreign language courses has slipped, ...