President George Bridges has upheld a decision by Whitman's personnel committee denying tenure to Alberto Galindo, assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures for Spanish. Galindo was informed of the decision on Friday, June 15. The appeal directly to Bridges took place after the personnel committee denied Galindo tenure in December and denied his appeal in May.

Currently a section of the Foreign Languages and Literatures department, Spanish will set out on its own next year.