{"id":2137,"date":"2023-11-15T16:44:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T00:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2023-12-05T08:44:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T16:44:24","slug":"languages-plummeting-drop-in-language-enrollment-at-us-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/11\/15\/languages-plummeting-drop-in-language-enrollment-at-us-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Languages: Plummeting drop in language enrollment at US colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/careersandeducation\/college-students-bid-adieu-to-foreign-language-classes\/ar-AA1jYiot?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=02a51540ca1b42c7d6a36c47e085263e&amp;ei=24\">College students bid adieu to foreign language classes (msn.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Enrollment in languages other than English at U.S.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/12\/11\/colleges-universities-sat-enrollment-applications?utm_medium=partner&amp;utm_source=microsoft-start&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=subs-partner-msfot-dailyessentials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">colleges and universities&nbsp;<\/a>dropped 16.6% between the fall of 2016 and the fall of 2021, the Modern Language Association (MLA) reports.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The biggest declines were in German (-33.6%), Arabic (-27.4%) and Modern Hebrew (-26%).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The only three languages with enrollment gains were Korean (by a whopping 38.3%), Biblical Hebrew and American Sign Language (ASL).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans continue down a path of fewer and fewer global skills. Gradually, all of our leaders in science, tech, academics and the executive suites will be immigrants &#8211; who often speak 2 to 4 languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am currently enrolled in a Norwegian course, online, offered through a non-profit language institute in the U.S. I am also using many self-study resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enrollment in language courses, other than English, has plummeted at U.S. colleges. This is not good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-languages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}