American Dreams
In 1999, ten members of the department teaching American classes had taken leaves of absence, severely curtailing undergraduate course offerings.
More troubling still, members of the department said they felt like the American subsection was understaffed, notwithstanding the temporary shortages.
"We need more Faculty who teach," Thomas Professor of Government Theda R. Skocpol said then. "We obviously have a problem."
Today, department members' opinions are mixed on how far the department has progressed since two years ago. No one denies, however, that the department has tried hard to improve itself.
"What I tried to suggest in 1999, and now we're well into the process, is that we need to strengthen the American subfield," says MacFarquhar now.
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