Howard University's Decision To Cut Classics Department Prompts An Outcry
Howard is the nation's only historically Black university with a classics department, but it is now moving to dissolve the program after a three-year review of the school's curriculum.
Howard University in Washington, D.C., is the nation's only historically Black university with a classics department, but it provoked criticism late last month when it was reported that school officials had decided to eliminate the classics department.
The uproar came swift. Students have written letters to Anthony Wutoh, the provost and chief academic officer at Howard, calling for the department to be saved. The Harvard scholar Cornel West penned in calling the decision a "spiritual catastrophe." An online petition to preserve the.
