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They aren't included in the pool of top-rate professors or in the curriculum. Harvard boasts that 8 percent of its undergraduates are Hispanic. Yet those numbers aren't paralleled in the Faculty, where Latinos are very poorly represented. There are currently four tenured Latino professors out of the...
"I have no doubt that over time we will havemore courses having to do with these aspects ofAmerican, Hispanic-American experience,"Rudenstine said. "It's really a question ofgetting there, as we find people and as we finddollars to do it."
Second-year student X. Carlos Vasquez, who ismembership chair of the Hispanic law studentorganization La Alianza, says that many members ofhis group are concerned that "this is an effort tomake the dean look good instead of have anysubstantive changes."
Harvard currently has only four tenured Latino faculty members. No courses are offered that deal significantly with the experience of Hispanic-Americans in U.S. politics, society or history. Sure, class offerings that deal with Latin America are already in the course catalog, but Raza and La O members have specifically...
I periodically look around my classrooms to see if there are some brown faces or vaguely Hispanic ones. I have gotten used to being the only Hispanic in section in all subjects--science, literature and government. Since Harvard is unwilling to take any initiative, it is up to Hispanic students...