Beginning in fall 2012, language instruction in Modern Greek, Dutch, Romanian and Tamil will likely be available to Cornell students through video conferencing classes with other universities.

Kevin Chung '11 weighs in on the state of small language programs at Cornell. 

To the Editor:

Re: “Future Turkish Classes Available Only on Video,” News, April 15.

In these challenging economic times, difficult decisions must be made to streamline and cut costs wherever possible. In making these decisions, however, it is crucial that policies to put Cornell in a stronger position in the short term are not to the detriment of the long-term interests of the University and its students. The campus recently learned of the Dutch, Swedish and ESL language programs being terminated entirely and Turkish being curtailed. This will serve a severe blow to the long-term interests of the University, but most importantly, its graduates.