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Lisa Filippi is a biology professor with a passion for a rare Japaneseinsect, spending the past 20 years studying its parenting habits.As a result or her expertise, Dr. Filippi served as a consultant forthe television documentary
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olumbia’s famous Core Curriculumis divisive. The collective academicexperience draws many studentsto the university, but its content isa regular target of their ire. In April 1996and November 2007, Columbia Universitystudents went on hunger strikes to expandColumbia’s ethnic studies and alleviate theCore of its focus on “Dead White Men.” Inthe past year, Columbia’s undergraduateEthnic Studies courses and faculty have morethan tripled, the result of an administrativereorganization that may sate strikers once andfor all.
The sudden growth relects professor,ilmmaker, and writer Frances Negrón-
Muntaner’s effort to help students takeadvantage of New York’s intellectual density.“I think academic units always feel like theycould do more if they had more resources.I want to make the best use of the ones wealready have,” she says. Since taking up themantle of director of the Center for the Studyof Ethnicity and Race (CSER, pronounced
“Caesar”) last year, Negrón-Muntaner and
her colleagues have combined severaldepartments at Columbia and Barnard,forming a conglomerated Ethnicity and RaceStudies Department.The reorganization turns the former
Studying Race and Ethnicity
By Kat Stoeffel
New multicultural programs refect a new generation o scholars
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