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...officio member of the committee. Other faculty members are Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals, Sandra A. Naddall, master of Mather House and a senior lecturer in literature, and Jerome Kagan, Starch professor of psychology. One additional faculty member will be named to the ad-hoc committee...
Ethnic studies deserves to be a coberent department because the current ad hoc committee fails to meet students' needs. Many of the courses listed as "related to ethnic studies" in Harvard's course catalogue are merely area studies of the Caribbean, Vietnam, China...
Dean Knowles's letter came in response to the recommendations of a student advisory committee on ethnic studies at Harvard. The group asked the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to upgrade Harvard's existing ad hoc committee to a standing committee, to establish ethnic studies as a concentration and to provide it with four endowed professorships...
First, PUCC abhors the notion of directing U.C. grants to reward or punish ideology. We have proposed that a small sum of money--perhaps 2% of the council's semesterly budget--could be set aside to aid ad-hoc projects that engage in the defense of student interests. We understand those interests quite narrowly, as concerns that students hold and which affect a substantial portion of the College's population. Students working to maintain federal financial aid programs might qualify; those interested in, say, pro-choice advocacy, however urgent that issue may be, would have to look elsewhere. Every other...
Also in 1994, the Faculty Council three times deferred voting on a proposal to upgrade the current ad hoc committee on ethnic studies to a standing committee...