Federal funds to support K-12 and college foreign-language instruction took a hit in the fiscal 2011 budget deal.

It’s clear from declining enrollment in foreign language courses in colleges and universities across the country that students are losing interest in language learning. As a result, institutions ...

Seven Russian universities will now offer a Hindi language program to promote cultural and academic exchange between India ...

All but three of the 15 most commonly studied languages experienced enrollment decreases. In addition, the total number of foreign-language programs reporting enrollments fell by 961, an 8-percent ...

The University of Houston is cutting language majors like French and ASL as student enrollment drops and interest shifts to STEM and business fields.

Deals between private companies and colleges to attract and educate foreign students are spreading from other countries to the United States.

From 2013 to 2016, across the United States, 651 foreign language programs were closed, and majors in classics, the arts and religion have frequently been eliminated or, at larger schools, shrunk.

School systems across the Washington, D.C., area are adding foreign language classes in elementary grades in response to a call from government and business leaders who say the country needs more ...

One of Indiana University’s oldest foreign language programs was abruptly put on hiatus, with no indication of when — or if –— it will resume. The Honors Program in Foreign Languages ...

Spanish is provided in 88 percent of the elementary schools that teach a foreign language. Overall, one in four elementary schools offered foreign-language classes in 2008.

All students in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences must, before graduation, demonstrate proficiency at the intermediate level in a modern foreign language or in a classical language.