The University of Oklahoma - Norman

Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Anthropology (This Major's Salary over time)
On the surface this department appears "friendly and approachable" however after being there and watching what faculty does to the students they deem as "problems" or not worthy of the field, there is nothing "friendly" about this department.

There are two female socio-cultural faculty members that for anyone who is thinking of going to school there should stay completely away from, unless, you are deemed a "favorite" then your life might be worth living. If your not interested in Latin America or Brazil or some sort of political identity issues, you might reconsider.

One socio-cultural faculty actually told students, that if they didn't live in the same community as their field reserach interests, they were not really doing field work. She said that anyone doing work within Oklahoma and not physically "living" where your group was for the entire length of fieldwork was not a real anthropologist or fieldworker.

I know of at least two cases where students were accused of academic misconduct - one student stayed and is in total isolation and the other left and went to a different program and doing very well.

If you like to hear about Berkeley [several faculty either went to school there or another California school] on a regular basis, you will love it there, however, if your that excited about Berkeley, I would say go to school there and not OU.

There are better anthropological programs in the country,I regret not taking my back-up school offers.