Elimination of African Studies B.A. Program
On behalf of undergraduate and graduate students in African Studies at Howard, I want to alert you to changes that Howard's President and Board of Trustees are making to consolidate and eliminate academic programs at Howard. The B.A. in African Studies has been recommended to be eliminated. A group of undergraduate and graduate students met with the Provost yesterday to discuss this iss...ue. At the end of the meeting the Provost told us that he has yet to reach a decision on whether he will follow through with the recommendation to eliminate the African Studies B.A. program.
We need your help in making a case to Howard's administration to keep the B.A. in African Studies. I want to make clear that the M.A. and Ph.D. in African studies was lauded as one of the top academic programs at Howard and those programs will remain in tact. However, I want to emphasize that the B.A. degree is an integral part of the department and this cut is perhaps the gateway to future cuts to faculty lines.
The students are initiating a letter writing campaign that will correspond with the ongoing discussions we are having with the administration. We are asking that you write a letter to the President, Provost, and Dean and send it on Monday, November 22, 2010. The University is in a review period until December 1st. You can read the full report at http://www.howard.edu/presemicRenewal.htm .
In the letter please include:
1. Your views on why the B.A. in African Studies at Howard (the Mecca) plays a special role in the local, national and international community for advancing a multiplicity of issues concerning Africans and Africans of the Diaspora.
2. Maintaining the program does not require any additional budget costs. (Yes! the provost admitted that there are no extra costs in maintaining the program, so it is not a funding issue.)
3. Your affiliation with the program or interest in the issue. (For example: former undergraduate student indicate semester and year you took a class in the department, organizational affiliation, present position and location etc.)
Please email the letter to the following people:
President Sidney Ribeau
sidney.ribeau@howard.edu
On behalf of undergraduate and graduate students in African Studies at Howard, I want to alert you to changes that Howard's President and Board of Trustees are making to consolidate and eliminate academic programs at Howard. The B.A. in African Studies has been recommended to be eliminated. A group of undergraduate and graduate students met with the Provost yesterday to discuss this iss...ue. At the end of the meeting the Provost told us that he has yet to reach a decision on whether he will follow through with the recommendation to eliminate the African Studies B.A. program.
We need your help in making a case to Howard's administration to keep the B.A. in African Studies. I want to make clear that the M.A. and Ph.D. in African studies was lauded as one of the top academic programs at Howard and those programs will remain in tact. However, I want to emphasize that the B.A. degree is an integral part of the department and this cut is perhaps the gateway to future cuts to faculty lines.
The students are initiating a letter writing campaign that will correspond with the ongoing discussions we are having with the administration. We are asking that you write a letter to the President, Provost, and Dean and send it on Monday, November 22, 2010. The University is in a review period until December 1st. You can read the full report at http://www.howard.edu/pres
In the letter please include:
1. Your views on why the B.A. in African Studies at Howard (the Mecca) plays a special role in the local, national and international community for advancing a multiplicity of issues concerning Africans and Africans of the Diaspora.
2. Maintaining the program does not require any additional budget costs. (Yes! the provost admitted that there are no extra costs in maintaining the program, so it is not a funding issue.)
3. Your affiliation with the program or interest in the issue. (For example: former undergraduate student indicate semester and year you took a class in the department, organizational affiliation, present position and location etc.)
Please email the letter to the following people:
President Sidney Ribeau
sidney.ribeau@howard.edu
Thanks and please pass this note on to your lists.
In Solidarity,
Anita
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My mission is to acquire, produce and disseminate knowledge on and about humanity as well as divinity, especially as it relates to Africa, in a constructive and liberating manner to people wherever they may be.
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Address: P. O. Box 4460 Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
My mission is to acquire, produce and disseminate knowledge on and about humanity as well as divinity, especially as it relates to Africa, in a constructive and liberating manner to people wherever they may be.
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Address: P. O. Box 4460 Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Cell : + 255 754771763/+ 255 718953273
Blog: http://udadisi.blogspot.com/
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