march twenty-third

I have to stop reading the Crimson. just in general. Today this article and this article talk about the fact that Harvard is losing faculty or not actively recruiting faculty in what they seem to consider non-mission-critical areas, such as pre-modern Japanese studies and (ahem) issues in diversity in education.

What’s hilarious and sad, though, is the conclusion the writers come to. “If Harvard is phasing out this sort of program, it’ll send a message to a whole lot of other universities that the study of pre-modern Japanese history is not important,” remarked a third-year graduate student in pre-modern Japanese history.

Oh, honey. Do you seriously think other universities just spend all of their time watching Harvard and trying to follow suit? Not quite. These moves don’t send a message to other universities that what you study is unimportant. It sends the message that none of these authors seem able to conceive of: Harvard doesn’t always do the right thing.


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