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...SAI’s seminar series and special events have attracted prominent academics, politicians, and artists from the region, courses and opportunities for research abroad are the only ways in which undergraduate students can develop a sustained interest and deeper knowledge of the region. In these two areas, South Asian studies at Harvard has failed to meet undergraduate needs...
...simply unacceptable that students at Harvard should lack academic opportunities of any sort, particularly those necessary to study a region of increasing global importance. The South Asian Studies Initiative (SASI), a student-led coalition, has exhaustively documented student interest in and dissatisfaction with South Asian Studies; in 2005, SASI undertook a comprehensive survey in which 126 students from a variety of concentrations and backgrounds participated. The survey showed that academic interest in South Asia, particularly from undergraduates, was on the rise, while Harvard resources were inadequate not only in fulfilling students’ demand but also in comparison...
...unanimous endorsement of the Undergraduate Council in November of 2005, the SASI survey and subsequent survey have gone largely ignored. Most of the bill’s recommendations, including increased faculty searches and appointments, as well as student representation in the Sanskrit department, SAI, and Standing Committee for South Asian Studies, remain unfulfilled. Most troubling, however, has been the administration’s failure to provide students with a concrete, time-based action plan for developing South Asian Studies at Harvard...
...time when Harvard is reevaluating its academic and curricular goals, the administration ought to reassert its commitment to developing South Asian Studies at Harvard. As students, we have done everything in our power to provide the university with extensive data on the current state of South Asian Studies at Harvard and at peer institutions; with statistics and recommendations illustrating undergraduate student desires; and with the endorsement of the larger student community. The onus now lies on the administration to implement these much-needed changes. In the words of former president Summers, “There is an enormous need...
...Vinita Andrapalliyal ’09 is co-chair of the South Asian Studies Initiative. Shreya Vora ’06 was chair of the South Asian Studies Initiative from...