Word: wu
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...philosophy behind the Bureau of Study Counsel is to support students in exploring "the relevance of their educational endeavors to their own development," then the highly popular Dunster House seminar that Morimoto co-taught with Wu for eight semesters served a valuable purpose. An extracurricular course, their seminar on Asian-American identity helped the first Asian-Americans admitted to the college in the early 1970s to feel less culturally alienated at Harvard. Last offered in 1983, the course has since evolved into a vehicle for pursuing Asian-American studies--both anthropological and historical--under the supervision of Professors Dorinne Kondo...
...Wu, whose dissertation focused on the college experiences of Asian-American students, had requested a teaching appointment which would allow her to continue sponsoring the seminar regularly--a practical difficulty for faculty constrained by departmental policies and heavy courseloads--upon Morimoto's retirement. While Wu acknowledged in a recent phone interview that there were many reasons for her departure, the University's denial of her request for a teaching post was apparently a major factor in her decision. At Brown, by contrast, she has been granted a teaching appointment, and will be leading a course next semester on Asian-American...
...point is not that the College is guilty of any explicit wrongdoing in the affair. Admittedly, Wu's teaching request went to the Ed School, over which the College has no authority, and thus the rules of institutional etiquette were not breached...
...reality, however, is that Asian-American students, who now comprise 10 percent of the undergraduate population, have long been demanding to see established in the curriculum a course which Dr. Wu was expressly willing to initiate and was qualified to teach...
Regardless of the bureaucratic logic involved, the College failed to take the initiative to retain a uniquely qualified talent. This omission reflects a blatant disregard for both the instructor's merits and students' earnest and repeated demands for such a course as Wu was willing to teach. The refusal to take an academic seriously, not in spite of ethnic differences but precisely for them, is tantamount to an attitude of tokenism...