After receiving word that the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) will donate funds and help in increasing student enrollment, La Trobe University reversed its recent decision to cease offering the Greek language in its curriculum.
The language will be taught for another three years and reviewed after the first-semester census in 2023 to see if the targets for enrollment have been met. If not, the language may be dropped at that time for good.
A change proposal had been shared with the public on November 11, partly as a result of the pandemic, which has seen massive changes wrought in the university system. Low enrollment in the Greek language program had always been an issue, and the pandemic had brought the chronic problems to a head, culminating in a meeting with key stakeholders in the University’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HUSS).
The program was then slated for being phased out as of 2022.
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