Indian Enough for Dartmouth?Posted in Articles, Campus Life, Media Archive, Native Americans/First Nation, United States on 2015-09-19 00:37Z by Steven |
Inside Higher Ed
2015-09-17
Scott Jaschik, Editor
Dartmouth College this month appointed Susan Taffe Reed as director of its Native American Program. In a news release, the college noted Taffe Reed’s academic background (a Cornell University Ph.D. and postdocs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Bowdoin College), her research interest (ethnomusicology) and something else: Taffe Reed, Dartmouth noted, is president of Eastern Delaware Nations Inc.
If Dartmouth expected applause for hiring someone with a strong academic background and a personal background that would appeal to its Native American students, whom the program serves, it was mistaken…
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