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Area studies centers, as they currently exist, are a vital part of American scholarship. They provide extra funding for research into fields that are geopolitically significant, but not traditional foci of academic interest. By enabling interested scholars to pursue research in these areas and cultures, the nation comes to possess an objective, broad-based knowledge of the regions in question. Politicizing these scholars and forcing them to rubberstamp political faits accomplis would make their advice useless. Politicians already have their yes-men; academics serve a different purpose...
Delegates at the event, who came from 116 colleges and 27 countries, lived with cadets and participated in discussion groups with regional or thematic foci, such as “Homeland Security” and “Democratization.” By the end of the conference, groups developed foreign policy recommendations for their specific topics...
...proposal to rename the committee incorporates a restructuring of the women’s studies concentration that would include additional tracks, or “foci,” for undergraduates to pursue. But placing these two new tracks, “Gender” and “Gender and Sexuality,” in an already existing women’s studies concentration, the department is effectively downplaying the inherent differences between women’s studies—which focuses primarily on feminist theory and women’s history, and the study of gender and sexuality...
Along with a possible new name, the concentration will see a restructuring that aims to define additional tracks, called “foci,” that students may pursue within the committee. The two new tracks will be called “Gender” and “Gender and Sexuality...
...1950s and 1960s, however, students demanded more courses dealing with contemporary issues, such as the structure of the American political system and energy development. The Faculty introduced many new Gen Ed courses with narrower foci, but these courses were sometimes criticized as obscure or random...