A push for standardization and basic foreign language skills has contributed to the departure of four members of the faculty and staff of the Arabic studies department at the University of Maryland, College Park since the summer.
“We were dictated materials,” said Bouchra Araji, an instructor who resigned last month from the program, which now has six members of its faculty and staff remaining, according to its website. “They stripped us of all control of our classroom.”
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