Letter: Try welcoming international students, not shaming them
(01/28/19 5:00am)
On February 28, 2018, all masters students in Duke Biostatistics received an email from their director of graduate studies, Dr. Megan Neely. In her message, Dr. Neely singled out international students and expressed disapproval on behalf of “many” Duke Biostatistics faculty regarding their practice of conversing in their native languages while on break. Faculty, she claimed, viewed students who chose not to speak English during private interactions as unprofessional and as not taking their academic experience seriously.