Disappearing Language Offerings Study documents decline in languages offered for instruction at American colleges - Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed

A study by the Modern Language Association has found 651 instances in which, in fall 2016, a foreign language that had been offered in fall 2013 at a college was not offered. The lost language offerings represent a 5.3 percent decline in language offerings in the period studied in American higher education. The most common disappearances of offerings were in French (129), Spanish (118), German (86) and Italian (56). (Spanish is by far the most commonly taught foreign language in the United States.) https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/24/research-documents-decline-languages-offered-over-three-year-period