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Save Howard Philosophy
Published by Paul C. Taylor on Nov 09, 2010
1147 Signatures 
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Target: Howard University - Office of the President
Region: United States of America
Background (Preamble):
The Department of Philosophy at Howard University is in danger of being shut down. The administration is poised to fold this BA and MA degree granting department into an interdisciplinary program offering only core and service courses.
This will mark the end of the only graduate degree program in philosophy at an HBCU; it will weaken the university’s commitment to the kind of humanistic self-examination that underwrote the US black freedom movement; and it will repudiate the legacy of philosophy at Howard, a legacy forged by the likes of Alain Locke, one of the central figures in the Harlem Renaissance.
Please help us encourage Howard’s president to strengthen philosophy rather than abolish it.
This will mark the end of the only graduate degree program in philosophy at an HBCU; it will weaken the university’s commitment to the kind of humanistic self-examination that underwrote the US black freedom movement; and it will repudiate the legacy of philosophy at Howard, a legacy forged by the likes of Alain Locke, one of the central figures in the Harlem Renaissance.
Please help us encourage Howard’s president to strengthen philosophy rather than abolish it.
Petition:
We, the undersigned, call on President Ribeau of Howard University to abandon his plan to close the BA and MA programs in philosophy.
The Save Howard Philosophy petition to Howard University - Office of the President was written by Paul C. Taylor and is in the category Education at GoPetition. Contact author here. Petition tags: philosophy, hbcu, howard university, academic renewal, sidney ribeau, alain locke
