On a Thursday in mid-September, lecturers in the Spanish and Portuguese department received a message from their chair — one that, for some, signaled a threat to their employment and the future of campus language learning. The memo detailed a shift toward a more stringent enforcement of a decades-old policy: Minimum enrollment mandates, which allow departments to cancel classes that do not reach specified enrollment levels. Some lecturers and faculty alleged that this may represent the first step in a wave of cuts from campus administration, which so far have included the termination of four language lecturers’ contracts, course eliminations, section cuts and the non-reappointment of some pre-six lecturers. Read more through the link in bio. ✍️: Aarya Mukherjee, Clara Brownstein 📸: Owen Mark . . . #ucberkeley #dailycal #berkeley #layoffs #language