This article discusses how some of football coach Johnny Majors' recruiting techniques can be used to build and maintain strong foreign language programs by reducing the rate of attrition at the end of the basic FL sequence. (Author/CFM)

Suggestions are made of ways for colleges and universities to bolster enrollments by actively calling attention to their language programs. The intended audiences are high school students and teachers and students already in college. (RM)

Trends in foreign language study in American colleges since 1955 are outlined, and the role of foreign language study in its present context is described. (RM)

Colleges are ranked based on results of a Spring 1973 survey on the number of full-time and part-time professors of Japanese and on the number of undergrad and grad students of Japanese. In the questionnaire circulated among 53 institutions, questions regarding textbooks and cultural materials were also asked. (SC)

The 1974 Survey of Foreign Language Registrations in United States Institutions of Higher Education, conducted by the Modern Language Association, is described here. (RM)

Enrollment trends in Italian courses at the college and secondary level are presented. The largest Italian department is at Rutgers College in New Brunswick. The history of this program is presented. (SW)

Extracts are given from the 78-page survey which deals with the changing pattern of enrollments in university language courses and with changes in range, structure and orientation of university language courses. An address from which the full report may be obtained is given. (RM)

The number of students studying modern languages has declined, and the number reading classics at British universities has declined dramatically. Classics departments that adapt to changing conditions by offering programs such as Classical Studies, including a high proportion of nonlanguage courses, are able to survive. (JMD)

This paper addresses the effects of the open admissions policy on the study of foreign languages at the City College in New York. Issues discussed include enrollment trends, course offerings, and staffing requirements. (SW)

Paper read at the International Congress of Teachers of Italian held at the Universita Italiana per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy, August 27-28, 1971. Discusses the patterns of growth of Italian studies in Ontario at high school and university levels. (DS)

This article reports on the results of a 1974 survey conducted by the foreign language staff of the Modern Language Association concerning foreign language enrollments in American colleges, universities and junior colleges. Both general percentages and percentages concerning French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian and other languages are given.…

This study sought to: determine foreign language enrollments compared to total humanities and total college enrollments in two-year institutions; examine foreign language course offerings in 1975 and 1977; and determine if institutional size is related to the range of foreign languages offered. (SW)

One answer to this question is the teaching of subjects other than literature, particularly in "intermediate French." Instruction in Franco-American relations is culture. Topics discussed are: establishment of precise objectives, limiting topics, access to documentation, teacher preparation, teaching methods. Examples of projects are given. (Text…

Suggestions for increasing undergraduate language enrollments are made: (1) making language study an interesting cultural immersion; (2) teaching literature in translation; (3) writing accurate, well-annotated English translations of foreign literature. (CHK)

A consultancy grant was requested by the University of Nebraska at Omaha from the National Endowment for the Humanities because enrollments in advanced language courses were dwindling. It was suggested that language majors be expanded into area and interdisciplinary studies. Details of recommendations and grant application procedures are included.…