{"id":30894,"date":"2019-01-28T12:23:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30894"},"modified":"2019-01-28T12:23:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:23:30","slug":"a-us-professor-urged-chinese-students-to-speak-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30894","title":{"rendered":"A US professor urged Chinese students to speak English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A Duke University professor who warned Chinese students against communicating in their native language and urged them to speak English instead has stepped down as the head of a master&#8217;s program after her emails sparked outrage on campus and on social media.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Students are calling for a further investigation into the emails and claims that those speaking Chinese outside of class might not be given the same opportunities as other students.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Something to think about,&#8221; read the subject line of an email Megan Neely sent Friday. Neely, who headed the Master of Biostatistics program in the university&#8217;s School of Medicine, <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnn\/2019\/images\/01\/28\/megan.neely.email.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">sent the email<\/a> to first and second-year students in the program. In it, she urged the students to &#8220;commit to using English 100% of the time&#8221; in a professional setting.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A Duke University professor who warned Chinese students against communicating in their native language and urged them to speak English instead has stepped down as the head of a master&#8217;s program after her emails sparked outrage on campus and on social media.Students are calling for a further investigation into the emails and claims that those&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}