College or School of International, Area, and Language Studies

The African American Advisory Council would want to insure that Transformations processes including consolidations and workforce reductions would not erode The University of Arizona's efforts to recruit and retain diverse faculty, students, and staff.

What about the English Department? We too work across national divisions, and we are certainly interested in language and culture, as well as, of course, literature. We also already work closely with a number of the programs discussed here, as indicated in the English Department's proposal. As is also indicated of the other programs included in this proposal, we must remain a Department in order for our graduate students' degrees and our faculty members' positions to retain any value within the field of English nationwide, but we would certainly fit within a program such as that described in this excellent proposal (which does indicate that it would welcome including other programs relevant to its mission, although it is still mystifying why English is not mentioned there). I also appreciate the mention of the importance of library holdings and of the value of enabling graduate students to teach in multiple departments. I discussed serving as a TA for a History course on masculinity with the professor, who would have gladly given me that opportunity, were we not ultimately stymied in the plan by the limitation of History funding to History grad students and vice versa.