Naming the American Universities With the Most Extensive Course Offerings in African Languages

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

JBHE research concludes that among the nation's highest-ranked colleges and universities, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and the University of California at Los Angeles have the most extensive curriculum offerings in African languages. Harvard is playing catch-up ball.

This past year there was widespread publicity surrounding the departure of Lawrence Bobo and Marcyliena Morgan from the African and African-American studies department at Harvard. The pair took teaching positions at Stanford University. Most commentators agree that this was a major blow to the prestige of the ...

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