Word: wu
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Several Asian-American students have expressed concern about the search for a new director, however. They say they are troubled by the departure of Jean Wu, who served as associate director of the Bureau under Morimoto and was passed over for the directorship during an earlier round of the replacement search. With Wu' departure, there are no Asian-American administrators in the College, the students say (see accompanying article...
When Kiyo Morimoto, the head of the Bureau of Study Counsel, retired last spring after 27 years at the Bureau, he recommended that Jean Wu, then associate director, be appointed as his successor...
...Wu was later rejected by a search committee of administrators and professors. She has since left Harvard to accept a post at Brown University, and her departure exacerbates the under-representation of Asian-Americans in the College administration, Asian students...
Search committee member Perry London, a professor at the School of Education, said that although Wu's credentials were "very, very excellent," none of the more than 20 original candidates who submitted applications last spring was "exactly suited for the position...
...Wu, who became associate dean of the college at Brown this fall, said she had taught a house seminar with Morimoto entitled "Asian American Experience and Identity." She said she requested a faculty appointment to continue teaching the course after Morimoto's resignation, but her request was denied...