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...central task of the ad hoc Committee on Ethnic Studies, created more than a decade ago by former Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, is to provide course enrichment, most particularly in the areas of Native American, U.S. Latino, and Asian American studies. The Committee’s Ethnic Studies Guide and its website, www.fas.harvard.edu/~cesh, give an overview of the committee and explain its central objective. In the past years, the committee has helped to create and fill one full Faculty position in Asian American studies, has invited numerous visiting Faculty members and has organized several conferences...
...students did present Knowles with a written list of proposals to improve the University’s offerings for students interested in ethnic studies. They suggested making the current ad hoc Committee on Ethnic Studies a standing committee, implementing an ethnic studies certificate and increasing the number of courses and professors in the field...
...Harvard team of a month ago, the one who finished the regular season with a 2-8-1 mark. Harvard finally found consistency and a team identity during its “second season.” The Crimson skated as an entire unit, not as a ad-hoc combination of lines, each with different playing styles...
Tilghman also served on Radcliffe’s ad hoc committee—the advisory body that shaped Radcliffe’s transformation from a college to an institute for advanced study...
Currently, an ad-hoc Committee on Ethnic Studies, headed by Professor of Afro-American Studies Werner Sollors, tries to help interested students find relevant courses and advisers. Though the committee’s website lists courses that fall under the ethnic studies rubric, it is a weak framework into which students with a wide variety of passions are corralled. Supporters of ethnic studies have rightfully continued to push the University to establish at least a certificate program and hope to establish fully independent departments for various ethnicities someday...