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Acquiring language proficiency

Each language department approaches the competency requirement differently, however. Where some departments emphasize immediately teaching in the target language ? conducting the entire course in the language within the first semester ? many others focus on developing grammar before speaking.


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Class Giving Committee kicks off 2015 campaign

The Fourth-year Trustees launched the Class Giving campaign last week. In the email to graduating students, the committee said tuition covers just 17 percent of total University revenue — though for exclusively academic revenue, the number is closer to 36 percent.


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White House launches sexual assault prevention campaign

The White House announced the launch of a new sexual assault prevention initiative Friday: “It’s On Us” Public Awareness Campaign to Help Prevent Campus Sexual Assault.The campaign was driven by the White House’s Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, convened in January 2014.


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On this episode of On Record, we sit down with Vera Abbate, director of the Summer Language Institute. Abbate discusses how the program builds fluency, confidence and community through intensive study and practice.