Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ethnic studies activists say the issue is less contentious today because students and faculty are approaching it from similar positions. However faculty and students are not yet in total agreement...
...different ethnic groups interact is an important field of study for social and academic reasons and you can separate it from representative politics," says Michael Hsu '98, a member of the Academic Affairs Committee (AAC). "That has helped us touch base with the faculty on a common goal, which we didn't have four years...
...ethnic studies activists were disappointed when Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles rejected a proposal by the AAC which called for an increased focus on ethnic studies...
Knowles wrote in a letter to the AAC that the Faculty should not establish programs limited to "narrowly defined ethnic groups but [should] focus on ethnic studies generally...
Although many other universities, including Yale and Brown, have developed ethnic studies departments in the wake of student activism, Harvard does not have an ethnic studies department or a degree committee...