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Furthermore, given Harvard’s historically reluctance to support disciplines outside the standard academic canon, the creation of a film studies Ph.D. is an opportunity to underscore the significance of artistic study. The proposal is particularly fitting in the context of University President Drew G. Faust’s much-publicized initiative to promote the arts on campus. And the Ph.D. program will require almost no new funds: Given the program’s small size and the availability of resources, neither a dramatically expanded budget nor new hiring will be necessary to get the program off the ground...
Given the immense benefits and miniscule costs, we see no good reason to reject the creation of the Ph.D. program—save, perhaps, academic snobbery. The Faculty should embrace this opportunity to support the burgeoning field of film studies and approve the Ph.D. program...
...AAA’s current advocates are setting smaller goals. Their predecessors in the organization fought for a full concentration, but ended up with nothing, said Zen, the AAA’s education politics co-chair.They are now pushing for more modest results, although their ultimate goal is still the creation of Asian American studies as an independent program for undergraduates. The AAA is working with the East Asian studies program to create an Asian American studies track within the department’s secondary field. East Asian studies is supporting this effort, according to Idema, the concentration?...
...chorus is similarly desolate: “Where’s the hope gone? / Where’s the hope gone? / I see the whole world turn into a war zone.” Jean’s answer to global violence is to strive for the creation of a global album. His version of world music, however, means cramming every conceivable genre into a single song. “Welcome to the East” features hints of samba, reggae, and classical guitar, and even has a cameo from the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan...
...move builds on recent University efforts to generate collaboration in the sciences, such as the creation last spring of a cross-school Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, between Harvard Medical School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...