Word: afros
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Counter is a neuroscience professor. Seven ofthe 18 FAC members are science professors. Six areadministrators. No one from the Afro-AmericanStudies Department's "dream team" of race scholarssits on the committee...
...requirements, but has also rightly added a quantitative component to the Core and toughened the language requirement. After a couple of sparse years, the Core has rebounded to offer a sizable number of new classes. Several departments have seen the arrival of renowned scholars, from William Julius Wilson in Afro-American Studies to Stephen Greenblatt in English. On the other hand, the last four years have also seen the depletion of the Government and History departments, particularly Americanists; the mass exodus of junior faculty from the English department; the seeming failure, if not iniquity, of the tenure system...
Other professors who were personally approached included Pratap B. Mehta, associate professor of government and of social studies, and Patricia Sullivan, visiting lecturer on Afro-American Studies...
Fletcher University Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West '74 even reached into his pocket to fill out a $50 check to support the campaign...
Filmmaker Isaac Julien, who has a joint appointment with the Afro-American Studies Department, has shown films at festivals around the world, including as Berlin, Paris, Melbourne, and Sundance...