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A needed voice, Michael - thanks for writing this.
"five courses were offered with a total enrollment of 27 students"
Suggesting an average of less than 6 students per course. Seems like there's not much of a demand for these classes once you eliminate the large intro class. Why should the university be spending limited funds on a course that only 6 students want to take?
@ budgeting priorities
There was a typographical error somewhere between when I handed in my column and when it was produced. The number is 127 students - not 27.
given the continuing history of institutional european and american racism, are you genuinely surprised?
Thank you for writing this Michael! As someone focusing on East Africa, I have been genuinely outraged by the lack of classes on Africa. There is not one Africa focused course in Woody Woo, the Politics, Econ, Sociology, or Religion departments, and History is only offering a grad course (and, while the music course is certainly valuable, the majority of AFS certificates are in one of these departments).
This is absurd and, coupled with the removal of all Swahili classes above the 100 level and the lack of AFS program specific classes, points to an area of gross neglect on the part of the University.
Thank you so much for writing this article. People who planned on certain courses being offered that have been historically offered, like myself, were really disadvantaged by these cuts. I don't understand how a growing interest in a program can lead to it being shrunk.
Why is the university spending all its money funding redundant studies of rich, white countries?
because people are interested in the studies of rich white countries
How do we stop this? Academics should be the university's first priority, and this just isn't right. Ignorant and INTOLERANT professors like Robbie George should not be getting paid 'celebrity professor' salaries while the University contracts the breadth of the ethnic and cultural studies offered to students.
And how much is Til-Dawg making this year?
Couldn't our top administrators give up a little to save the academic integrity of this institution???
This is not what I signed up for.
Princeton in the Nation's Service and The Service of Most Nations, Most Of The Time, Assuming We Have The Money