TO THE EDITOR:
As faculty on this campus, we strongly support our colleagues in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies.
We were glad to see the letter by Jonathan Hartlyn, senior associate dean for social sciences and global programs entitled “Blaming AFAM is the wrong approach.”
We take Hartlyn seriously when he says that the problems that were discovered in the “Review of Courses in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies,” of which Hartlyn was a co-author, “have ended,” and that there was “no evidence that directly implicates other department faculty or staff.”
Like all departments, African and Afro-American Studies is composed of individuals who are engaged in teaching, research and service that benefit our campus, our state, our nation and our world.
As individuals and as a department, the African and Afro-American Studies faculty make invaluable contributions to the production and spread of knowledge.
We stand in support of this department and the multi-disciplinary field of which it is a part.
Mark Driscoll
President
UNC chapter of the American Association of University Professors
Associate Professor
Asian Studies
