@article{1484061,
      recid = {1484061},
      author = {Uebel, Emily Heidrich, and Kronenberg, Felix A., and  Sterling, Scott,},
      title = {Language program vitality in the United States : from  surviving to thriving in higher education /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 382 pages) :},
      abstract = {The perception of a permanent enrollment crisis in US  postsecondary foreign language education has shaped our  profession's image for an entire generation of educators.  Over the past 30 years, this crisis rarely invited  self-examination or inspired creativity. Instead, it was  routinely attributed to external factors: shrinking  budgets, unsympathetic administrators, disengaged students.  This volume is refreshingly optimistic: After providing a  nuanced picture of the complex enrollment situation and  focusing on perceptions of language education among  undergraduate students, the volume features an inspiring  panorama of successful models that revitalized language  programs at a wide range of institutions. The diversity of  approaches to post-secondary language education in the  United States featured in this volume highlights that there  are no simple "one size fits all" solutions. To be  transformational, initiatives need to be intimately  calibrated to the evolving needs and desires of our  institutions' most important stakeholder: the student. Per  Urlaub, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1484061},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43654-3},
}