Finis: College Latin programs struggle to attract new students

Finis: College Latin programs struggle to attract new students

Once considered the language of academia, Latin has diminished in higher education as more universities turn away from teaching the dead language. “When we say dead language, it sounds so negative,” said Dominic Galante ’07. “But dead language really just means there’s no native speakers.” In fact, scholars suspect the last native Latin speakers died around the seventh century .  Fourteen centuries later, Galante graduated from St. Joe’s with a …