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Search for new linguistics prof to begin next year
by Joshua Adland
News | 11/14/06
Posted online at 5:59 AM EST on 11/14/06
Since Maling's departure, two non-tenure-track professors temporarily filled her position. The first was Prof. Barbara Citko (PSYC), who taught from fall 2003 to spring 2005 before leaving to take a tenure-track position at the University of Washington. The second was Goldberg.
The language and linguistics program, formerly known just as linguistics, took its new name after the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, the body that oversees the undergraduate educational activities of the university, approved changes in November 2005, creating a more interdisplinary program.
The change became necessary to sustain what some described as a dying program following the departure of Jackendoff That same spring, Jaffe had proposed and later rescinded a proposal to eliminate the linguistics major. Jackendoff maintained that this was not the cause of his departure, and that he had been considering leaving Brandeis since 1992, when the University eliminated its graduate program in linguistics and cognitive studies.
"I put 15 years into building a [graduate] program and lost it in about six months," Jackendoff said in spring 2005.
The language and linguistics program, formerly known just as linguistics, took its new name after the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, the body that oversees the undergraduate educational activities of the university, approved changes in November 2005, creating a more interdisplinary program.
The change became necessary to sustain what some described as a dying program following the departure of Jackendoff That same spring, Jaffe had proposed and later rescinded a proposal to eliminate the linguistics major. Jackendoff maintained that this was not the cause of his departure, and that he had been considering leaving Brandeis since 1992, when the University eliminated its graduate program in linguistics and cognitive studies.
"I put 15 years into building a [graduate] program and lost it in about six months," Jackendoff said in spring 2005.
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