Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is not going to be a passive major. [Students] have to define it themselves," said Professor of English Roger B. Henkle...
Prior to the vote, committee member David H. Hirsch, a professor of English, wrote a memo to other EPC members in which he lambasted the proposed concentration...
Idle proves to be as adept a writer as the more well-known members of the English comedy troupe, mixing genres with ease. Pass the Butler is get this, a political drawing room satire of the English upper crust the turns into a murder mystery as well as a soap opera parody. Idle uses the opportunity to take pot shots Americans, the British government, and the class system while moralizing on euthanasia...
...teaching ability already plays a significant part in tenure decisions, and students may not be able to evaluate teaching properly, said Joel Porte, chairman of the English department. "Our own judgment of scholarship might differ from the way studentswould react," Porte said...
Hernandez-Colon, however, said he was concerned that the "United States believes in an insular tradition of monolinguism, and that rather than bridge the linguistic gap...it would widen that divide by declaring English the official language...