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Marie-France Bunting, a preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures who is French, concurred with the need to embrace multiculturalism...
...field that had previously been sorely neglected at Harvard. Enter John M. Mugane, who came from Kenya to study at the Universities of Arizona and Ohio as a graduate student in 1988. Gates plucked him from Ohio’s ranks in 2003. Mugane is now a Senior Preceptor in the department, and the Director of the African Language Program. He is an embodiment of the department’s new tenor...
Fingleton adapted to Harvard like most freshmen. He was terrified of the Radcliffe girls—“they scared the bejeezes out of me,” he chuckles—and he gagged over Expos. Indeed, he still shudders at the memory of his preceptor...
Already, the department has hired a new full-time preceptor in Arabic and opened an unprecedented seventh section of first-year Arabic...
Gates adds that he thinks Harvard’s growing African languages program—which is directed by Senior Preceptor in African and African American Studies John M. Mugane, offers 14 languages, and is the largest program of its kind in the country—will also draw increasing numbers of students in the future...