Save Berkeley EALC Rally - May 8th, 2008

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In the next fiscal year of 2008, UC Berkeley’s East Asian Languages and Cultures department faces a cut of 25% to the budget earmarked for language lecturers and Graduate Student Instructors.* What this means for students is:

Percentage of classes to be cut from each language:

* Japanese 40%
* Chinese 54%
* Korean 66%

Numbers of students to be cut from next year’s classes:

* Chinese: 550
* Japanese: 496
* Korean: 484

(Source: EALC office)

This academic year, 3200 students took EALC language classes—and we already had to turn away hundreds of interested students for lack of funds. Next year, EALC will only be able to accommodate 1500 students.

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items are from 09 May 2008.