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...their push for a Latino studies department, students and faculty are saying that Harvard is not only behind other programs at other universities but also behind where it should be given its growing faculty resources in this area...
While students at Yale and many other schools around the country can major in Latino studies, students at Harvard have been struggling to get recognition for the field. Currently, Latino studies does not even offer a certificate—the most basic level of academic recognition...
Students this year presented Summers with a letter—signed by more than 100 students, faculty and administrators—that requested, among other things, founding a Latino studies department, increasing the number of Latino and Latin American faculty and administrators and incorporating Latino studies into the Core Curriculum...
Students studying subjects in the field have been overwhelmingly enthusiastic about professors in the field—including the recently hired Rudenstine Professor of Latin American Studies David L. Carrasco, whom many have called “a prophetic voice for Latino students...
...while the formal structures may not exist, Carrsaco says that Harvard’s commitment to Latino faculty remains...