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From: Jeremy Rich <jr724@CABRINI.EDU>
List Editor: John Philips <philips@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Editor's Subject: NSEP grant , US government, and controversy
Author's Subject: NSEP grant , US government, and controversy
Date Written: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:56:23 -0400
Date Posted: Tue, 19 Apr 2004 21:55:53 -0400

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Date: April 19, 2004
From: Jeremy Rich
<jr724@cabrini.edu>

I would like to draw attention to the H-Africa community to the following
article in "National Review" on the National Security Education Program set up
in part to attract graduate students into national security related US
government agencies after finishing their studies.  It looks like the same
question of government funding for Middle East centers partially funded by US
government subsidies ("Title VI") currently embroiling Middle East area
studies will also concern Africanists.

The article speaks of a boycott by Africanist scholars against the NSEP and
urges readers to support House Resolution 3077, calling for increased state
supervision of Title VI-funded area studies programs and the formation of a
International Advisory Board to review area studies programs.  University of
Wisconsin David Wiley and his "followers", to follow the article, appear as
the leaders of this movement (which leads me to wonder if there really are any
Africanist professors in America with a menacing entourage, and how I could
personally become one of them, but I digress).  I do not know Dr. Wiley, and
I suspect he is not quite the mastermind of conspiracies suggested in this
piece, but I'd like to hear more about this issue.

I think Africanist scholars in America need to discuss this, seeing how so
many of us are participants and/or products of Title VI programs.  Personally,
I know there is much opposition to the NSEP grant, but I am not sure Kurtz's
story is entirely accurate.  What do people think of this depiction of Title
VI squabbles?  More importantly, what kind of changes will occur if US
government funding towards African Studies programs shifts as suggested by HR
3077?

See the National Review article by Stanley Kurtz at
http://nationalreview.com/kurtz/kurtz200404010914.asp

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