Ezell Lundy, a third year graduate student in sociology, agrees and says that he feels very secure in his department.
"There's been ample support where you don't feel you're at a disadvantage because you are an ethnic minority," he says. "Yes, I hear where students don't get adequate support, but that's not because they are an ethnic minority."
Though Lundy says there is always room for the improvement of diversity on campus and that GSAS should continue their heavy recruiting efforts, he feels that minority representation of campus is "adequate."
"There are a reasonable number of communities of color on campus," he says.
But Gardenhire says that she would like to see more minority professors in departments outside of ethnic studies. In her six years at Harvard, she says, she has taken just one course from a black professor.
"We should be encouraging more people from undergraduates on," she says.
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