Reports a survey made in the fall of 1966 describing use of foreign language skills among members of the University of Wisconsin faculty in an attempt to examine the effects, both in costs and benefits, of a particular university's foreign language requirement. (DS)

This study investigates the extent to which graduate students, in writing their Ph.D. dissertations, actually do make use of the language skills which they have been required to obtain. A comparison of the extent of utilization of foreign language skills by the doctoral candidates with that by faculty members at the same institution is also…

This paper sets forth an explicit framework--comparing the "costs" of meeting the language requirement with the "benefits" produced by it--within which university facilities can evaluate their position toward this requirement and other requirements and activities. The study draws upon an extensive survey of the University of Wisconsin faculty…