Inside Higher Ed

Presenters at this year's Association of International Education Administrators conference described a pair of programs in which students double major in a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) field and a foreign language. Currently in its third year is Northern Arizona University's Global Science and Engineering Program, a five-year initiative in which students earn both a B.S. in a STEM discipline and a B.A. in a foreign language. Students take courses in both the language and the STEM field during their freshman year, while their fourth year is spent abroad before returning to campus for the final year. "We try hard not to sell it as an elite program because I think that kind of language is a language of exclusion and we want to have as many students participate in the program as possible," says Northern Arizona's Harvey Charles. To read further, please visit http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/18/universities-create-programs-so-stem-majors-earn-2nd-degree-foreign-language.