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“We had a very good system last year because the dean approved two new preceptor positions, giving us some opportunity to improve the enrollment,” Feng said. “And the other reason is the Olympics.”
“The Olympics are an extraordinary event and an extraordinarily successful event, and I don’t think it is surprising that it would enhance interest in China,” Kirby said. “But if you look at the Chinese program and the strength...
David L. Howell, chair of the East Asian studies department at Princeton, also traced rising enrollments in language courses to a larger trend rather than the Olympics themselves.
“I’d have to go back to the records to see exactly when, but over the past five or six years enrollments...in Chinese have doubled or more than doubled,” Howell said. “For me it’s still...
Even if the Olympics haven’t had an effect on students’ motivation yet, Kirby appeared to have a few ideas about how to change that.