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Director of ASRC, who would routinely fail to meet with white students who made appointments to see him at his office. On the third anniversary of the ASRC, the Board of Trustees formed a committee headed by
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Africana PhD program. In response, Robert L. Harris, Jr resigned as ASRC's director. Elizabeth Adkins-Regan and David Harris served as interim co-directors until July 2012. Gerard Aching subsequently served as director
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African peoples, as well as patterns of linkages to the African continent (and among the peoples of the African Diaspora). The Africana Studies program offers around 23 graduate and undergraduate courses each
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Northwestern, Yale and New York University found the ASRC reporting to the Provost to be a "peculiar arrangement," and recommended that Cornell "revisit this arrangement." On December 1, 2010, Cornell Provost Kent Fuchs announced that the Center would become a
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