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...effect positive change.” The partnership will be led at Harvard’s end by the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), an institute in the Kennedy Schoool of Government. Carmen D. Lopez, executive director of HUNAP, and Dennis Norman, the faculty chair of HUNAP??s Native Health Program, said in a conference call yesterday that the partnership is designed “to bring the brainpower of Harvard to benefit Native people.” Leo J. Nolan, a senior policy analyst at IHS, said Tuesday that over the past 50 years...
...We’re trying to have the University consider its duty and commitment to Indian people and education,” says Carmen D. Lopez, HUNAP??s interim executive director...
...program has had an unstable past since its founding as a part of the Graduate School of Education (GSE). A financial crisis in 1995 nearly forced HUNAP to shut down. The bulk of the program’s federal funding had dried up, and although the University applauded HUNAP??s mission, and even offered it partial emergency funds, it did not make the program part of its permanent budget...
...Still, HUNAP??s director Lopez remains optimistic. She sees promise in small moves forward, like research symposiums, fellowships and scholarships sponsored by HUNAP...
...that the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program could fill the void, that program affects only the College and does not have the contacts and years of experience that HUNAP has with Native American communities. In addition, the admissions offices of the various schools currently lack the personnel who could fill HUNAP??s role of expertise in the area of Native American recruitment...