While the editors said their book features a host of voices and experiences that are often overlooked in institutions of higher learning, they also conceded that not everyone was represented in the anthology.
When asked by an audience member why the anthology did not include any pieces about being gay or lesbian at Harvard, Tavares and Burciaga said they did not intend for the anthology to be a finished product.
They explained that they titled it as being "in progress" for that reason.
"Our hope is that this work becomes cyclical; that the dialogue and critical analysis within these pages inspires you to carve out a space and build upon the work we have begun," Tavares and Burciaga write in the anthology's introduction.
As for Frank Truitt, in reading from anthology, he explained to yesterday's audience that he has since revised his perspective and become "a different kind of guest."
"I've adopted the philosophy that, if by the end of my stay here, I'm supposed to be a different person than when I entered," he asked, "shouldn't Harvard be a different kind of place when I leave?"