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Beginning Spanish for the Medical Professions

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Congratulations to Jenelle Thomas for completing the Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures this fall semester 2017. Jenelle's dissertation is entitled “'Vous êtes hombre de bien:' A study of bilingual family letters to and from colonial Louisiana, 1748-1867."

We note with great concern the proposal currently before the US Congress that aims to tax graduate students on tuition remissions.

According to theChronicle of Higher Education:

Nationwide, about 55 percent of all graduate students had adjusted gross incomes of $20,000 or less... and nearly 87 percent reported incomes of $50,000 or less. At the same time, master’s-degree students received tuition waivers averaging nearly $11,000, and doctoral students got waivers averaging more than $13,600.