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...implied Summers was racist. Nevertheless, this dispute cannot realistically be seen as a racial or ethnic problem; the administration under Summers has steadfastly resisted any attempt to atomize academic study—queer studies being one oft-overlooked example. Reasonable people may debate the merits of ethnic and queer studies??although Summers has hardly helped his cause by maintaining a stony silence—but a refusal to accept ethnic studies does not imply race bias...
Currently, there are four certificates—in health policy, Mind, Brain and Behavior (MBB), African studies, and Latin American studies??and a citation in foreign language, which can also count as a credit for the Foreign Cultures requirement in the Core Curriculum...
Certificates—issued for health policy, MBB, Latin American studies and African studies??occupy a more ambiguous role among academic programs at Harvard...
...most substantial recommendation proposes a Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, where four professors—one each in Native American, Asian American, Latino and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies??would serve as chairs. The center would coordinate the University’s programs that relate to ethnic studies, and it would also be an ideal base for a broad ethnic studies department...
...studies is something the BSA is very strongly behind,” says Fred O. Smith ’04, a BSA board member. “We don’t want to lose what we do have and sacrifice it for something called ‘ethnic studies?? which may not become the powerhouse that the Af-Am department has become...