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Alfaro also wrote and co-produced a short documentary titled “Japanese American Women: A Sense of Place.” The film focuses on Alfaro and 12 other Japanese-American women as they struggle to find a place in a society dominated by stereotypes. Alfaro said she felt race-based hostility while at Berkeley, and that this experience influenced her focus on Japanese-American issues. Although much of Alfaro’s work focuses on Japanese-American identity, she has also dealt with subjects ranging dramatically from Greek mythology to biographical pieces based on figures...
Personal leadership development will likely be a focus of a possible series of small-scale courses running in tandem with the regular curriculum, and the school may invite venture capitalists on campus each week with business plans for students to analyze, Badaracco adds...
...Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies has laid out plans to adopt a more interdisciplinary focus as the renamed Department of South Asian Studies—a move, if approved, that professors hope would attract more concentrators and faculty affiliated with other departments...
Witzel added that South Asia’s increasing global presence has prompted the department to reevaluate its academic focus on the region...
...essentially requires teachers to work extra hours without extra pay. Of greater importance, however, we ultimately believe that following union demands to eliminate all the reform measures would fail to improve the quality of teaching in Boston. In the coming months, we urge the Boston public school system to focus instead on implementing Johnson’s suggested pay-for-performance plan that—we hope—will show teachers that their performance is valued on an individual level, encouraging them to focus on improving their own work as best they...