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...It’s the State Department??s view...that Cuban officials and the Cuban regime needs to feel the pressure of our disdain for that regime,” Boucher said at the press conference. “We just felt it wasn’t appropriate for this many Cuban government officials, ‘academics,’ to come to a conference to spout party line...
...with her outspokenness, but her words were matched with actions. In January, Kagan and 50 other Harvard Law School (HLS) professors filed a friend-of-the-court brief backing the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of 20 law schools challenging the constitutionality of the Defense Department??s interpretation of the Solomon Amendment. For years the Amendment, which was introduced in 1996, had never posed a problem for Harvard, which has a long-standing policy of requiring employers to sign an anti-discrimination pledge in order to recruit on campus. But under the Bush administration...
...used to the [Physics Department??s] Q-and-A service and having the lectures videotaped,” he said. “The way of teaching here is rich but strange...
Thankfully, the department has retained some of its most noted luminaries, such as W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., who is the department??s chair, as well as hosting visiting stars such as Jamaica Kincaid and Elvis Mitchell. And it continues to offer a broad range of programs for both concentrators and non-concentrators...
...without increased resources and new faculty, none of this will be enough to maintain the department??s place at the cutting edge of the academic study of Africa and the African diaspora. The reality remains that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is losing professors of color—of whom there are too few to begin with—instead of gaining them. This trend has to be reversed...