Preceptor Jody Lisberger teaches about race, homophobia and class in her course on Violence and Non-Violence.

"Our courses...are probably more diverse than any other department at Harvard," she says. "There's huge diversity in Expos, and you can discern that by looking at the different subjects that are taught and the different ways they are taught."

Both of the minority preceptors currently in the program argue that, although they've noticed Expos' lack of diversity, it doesn't take a minority instructor to teach racial issues.

"It seems to me that's kind of limiting to the instructor, that someone like me would only be asked to teach what I represent," Mohammed T. Nezam-Mafi says, who teaches the Expos course "Literature and the Other."

For preceptor Soo La Kim, being in the minority is nothing new, but she says she is dealing with it in her own way. She says it is difficult to determine whether the racial profile of the Faculty impacts students learning.

"I've certainly noted the lack of racial diversity," she says. "But there's a wide range of topics and with qualified people to teach them."

For the future, Harvey says that the department does not have a concrete plan to address diversity at the moment, but minority recruitment is at the top of Expos' priority list.