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Op-eds By Grace Bautista Apr 19, 2021 1:22 AM
Grace Bautista is a senior and the historian for the GW Asian American Student Association.
Over the past few weeks, Asian American and Pacific Islander student leaders at GW were faced with the horrific news of the March 16 shooting in Atlanta, where a violent hate crime took the lives of eight people, six of whom were Asian women.
During our grief and processing, many of us also learned we had finally won our yearslong fight for an Asian American studies minor. It was a bittersweet moment. For members of the Asian American Student Association who had been advocating for the minor for years, it seemed as if this moment would never arrive. But the minor’s implementation is a reminder of all we have faced this year and how far GW still needs to go to provide AAPI students with the resources and support we deserve.
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Students voted to add an urban studies minor in CCAS through a referendum during the Student Association elections earlier this month.
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences officials started to assess the proposal to implement an urban studies minor last week.
CCAS Dean Paul Wahlbeck said officials will meet with department faculty to talk through “curricular materials and other resources” that might be needed to create the minor, and the CCAS dean’s office and CCAS undergraduate studies committee will review the proposal. Students voted to add an urban studies minor in CCAS through a referendum during the Student Association elections earlier this month.
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Provost Brian Blake said at a Faculty Senate meeting last month that cluster hires are a good idea, but the University s financial expenditure during the pandemic might hurt those efforts.
News By Ishani Chettri Feb 8, 2021 12:05 AM
An informal group of department chairs and program directors is in discussions with officials about enacting a “cluster hire” of underrepresented faculty and increasing funding for the Africana studies program.
Joined by faculty, the group is circulating a petition calling on administrators to hire 18 minority faculty members “primarily” in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and provide enough funding for the Africana studies program to convert into its own department with a permanent director within the next three years. Professors said conversations that began last summer about deficiencies in funding, faculty and support in the Africana studies program sparked their calls for a broader
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