Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Serious conflicts within the History Department emerged this spring, centering on the easy access of tenured American history faculty members to substantial stipends from the income of the well-endowed Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History...
...alleged lack of adequate student participation in the departmental decisionmaking process has long been a source of friction between concentrators on the one hand and leading Afro faculty and especially the University on the other. The 1972 McCree Report on the department mandated that students should be granted access to all Afro faculty meetings except those that discussed honors recommendations and faculty appointments. The 18-month period of Southern's chairmanship has witnessed a steady decrease in the amount of student input into such departmental meetings, a development that several concentrators attribute to the policies and approach of Southern...
Concentrators complain of a feeling of impotence as they witness the emergence of such trends, saying that the absence of fulltime tenured faculty members in Afro--coupled with Southern's alleged refusal to formally meet with students--deny concentrators the kind of access to the depart- ment's decision making process as mandated in Afro's charter. The issue of full-time tenured Afro faculty opens up still another Pandora's box of troubles in the department, controversies that can be reduced to two basic developments: the introduction of joint tenure appointments in Afro over the last few years...
...policies of equal access, sex-blind admissions, and the new agreement between Harvard and Radcliffe which turns the responsibility for undergraduate education over to Harvard were cited by Horner as "increasing commitments to the changing ideals of the future...
...return for such pledges, the North asked for guaranteed access to stable supplies of oil and other raw materials, protection against arbitrary nationalization of foreign investments, as well as a forum for the continuing discussion of global energy problems, including...