Business 100W

An article in the Spartan Daily today discusses the move of Business 100W out of the College of Business and into English, Communications, and Linguistics & Language Development (where I teach the new 100WB). Unfortunately there was no explanation of the situation, in fact little else besides the uninformed imaginings of business students. In "researching" the situation, it seems that the writer of the article spoke with just one person, the director of the business advising center, who could not explain what is going on. Finding out who could explain and then speaking with that person would have been a good next step.

But back to the uninformed imaginings, especially shocking was this concern from one student:

"Some students might have trouble learning proper English skills if they're not familiar with the language and the class being outside of the department might not deal with that issue."

In fact Linguistics & Language Development is best-positioned to assist ESL students since it is one of the core missions of the department, and I am sure that the English department has a great deal of expertise as well.

There are definitely legitimate concerns about the move, and I would like to get the full story as well; but unfortunately the Spartan Daily article did not contribute anything meaningful to the discussion.