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According to Lopez, the weak American Indian studies offerings make it hard to recruit American Indian students to Harvard...
...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...
Kalt, who has helped steer the program to expand American Indian studies throughout the University, is the only professor at Harvard to focus his research exclusively on American Indians...
...you’re a [prospective] student who’s interested in American Indian classes, it’d be difficult to find them [at Harvard],” says Kyle E. Scherer ’05, who is part Native American and is also a Special Concentrator in American Public Policy and American Indian Politics...
...says that grant-giving entities like the Harvard Foundation and the Undergraduate Council have been excellent in terms of financial support, but she sees the paltry American Indian studies curriculum at Harvard as the ultimate deterrent for potential applicants. “Friends of mine who wanted to apply to Harvard found that it had nothing to offer them,” she says. And without a department and without aggressive recruitment of American Indian students and professors, the University might be losing out to other schools...