Megan Neely, director of the Master of Biostatistics program at Duke University, urged students to speak only English while on campus and in other professional settings.
A Duke University official stepped down over the weekend after a leaked email showed her telling Chinese students to speak “English 100 percent of the time.”
On Friday afternoon, Megan Neely, the director of graduate studies for the Master of Biostatistics program at Duke University, sent an email out to first-year and second-year biostatistics graduate students, urging them to “commit to using English 100% of the time” on campus “or any other professional setting.”
In the email—titled “Something to think about…”—Neely claimed that two unnamed faculty members visited her office and asked to see photos of the biostatistics students. Neely went on to explain that her colleagues wanted to see the images so they could then determine who they heard speaking Chinese “very loudly” on campus in case they ever applied for an internship.
Screenshots of the email were leaked on social media on Saturday.
