Bose said he hopes to build a South Asian studies curriculum at Harvard modeled after the Tufts program. Bose was given a fully tenured professorship. Chua, whose work focuses on international development in Asia, will be the first woman of color to become a tenured non-clinical faculty member at the law school. Chua's main areas of focus include development, markets, and democracy in developing countries, particularly in Asia. Chua will be the Law School's first female minority tenured professor.
Coalition addresses myriad of issues.
The keynote speaker was Bob Suzuki, president of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. The group organized a boycott by urging all Asian American college graduates not to apply for jobs at the national laboratories operated by the U.S. Department of Energy as long as Lee was held without a trial. Next year s conference will be held in New York, and a proposal for a research center focusing specifically on Asian Americans in higher education at UCLA is on the table. The departure of Davenport College Master Gerald Thomas next year will leave the University with no college masters of an underrepresented minority and only three women. The problem was on the agenda yesterday as 23,981 medical students across the country and around the world ripped open envelopes to find out their assignments to internships, the first and most grueling year of medical apprenticeship.