{"id":8695,"date":"2026-02-12T13:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/?p=8695"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:36:28","slug":"language-professors-leave-arabic-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/language-professors-leave-arabic-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Professors Leave\u00a0&amp; Arabic Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Kylie Lancaster\/\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The future of the Arabic program at Hood College&nbsp;is&nbsp;uncertain&nbsp;after two professors from the Department of Global Languages &amp; Cultures left over the winter break.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The provost announced on Dec. 29 that&nbsp;Didier Course&nbsp;and&nbsp;Donald Wright&nbsp;would no longer be teaching at Hood College, effective Dec. 31.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following their departure, the Board of Trustees has been tasked with deciding whether to continue the Arabic program. They will decide on the program at their meeting in March, interim Provost Paige Eager said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Youssef Yakoub, an assistant professor of Communication Arts,&nbsp;is&nbsp;teaching Arabic 102 and 202&nbsp;this semester.&nbsp;Yakoub is from Egypt and has taught Arabic at other institutions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eager said that&nbsp;\u201cCultures of the Middle East\u201d&nbsp;was&nbsp;the only course canceled due to these adjustments.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eager&nbsp;also&nbsp;said that no student\u2019s degree was negatively&nbsp;impacted&nbsp;because&nbsp;of&nbsp;these changes.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">##<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Kylie Lancaster\/\/ The future of the Arabic program at Hood College&nbsp;is&nbsp;uncertain&nbsp;after two professors from the Department of Global Languages &amp; Cultures left over the winter break.&nbsp; The provost announced on Dec. 29 that&nbsp;Didier Course&nbsp;and&nbsp;Donald <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/language-professors-leave-arabic-program\/\" title=\"Language Professors Leave\u00a0&amp; Arabic Program\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":8715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,26],"class_list":["post-8695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-hood-college","tag-news-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8696,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions\/8696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}