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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 38.5MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, February 4th, 2026. In today’s newscast, you will hear Germanic Studies professor Johannes Türk on the elimination of foreign language programs at IU. Hear more about language cafes popping up around town to keep foreign language learning alive, later in the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:17 — 11.2MB)Subscribe: RSSOver 400 higher education degrees have been eliminated, merged or suspended in Indiana to comply with new state law, and foreign language programs were among the hardest hit. At Indiana University this includes bachelor programs in French, Germanic Studies, Italian, Portuguese, Middle Eastern languages and cultures, Spanish, Slavic and …