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...summer, University Provost Steven E. Hyman decided to move HUNAP from its home of 30 years in Read House at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) to the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) without consulting HUNAP’s administrators or the students, according to HUNAP Executive Director Kenneth Pepion. Now falling under the auspices of KSG, the program has to cope with the disorientation and confusion of an unwanted move and a possible shift in its mission...
...cost of the new location will effectively decrease the program’s budget by over 14 percent. Now, according to Pepion, the provost’s office has pressured HUNAP to cease its continuing efforts at outreach to tribal communities and recruitment for Harvard’s various schools. While many would suggest 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...
...University states that it has a commitment to diversity, does this commitment extend only as far as its promotional materials? Or is the school actively working to ensure the recruitment and retention of both faculty and students of color, particularly amongst Native peoples? In spite of these setbacks, Pepion says he remains optimistic, in the hope that he can gain additional support to sustain the research and student development components of the program among the faculty...
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