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ALTHOUGH THE VISITING COMMITTEE to review Afro-American Studies recommended that the department be run as an interdisciplinary committee, the University has an obligation to maintain and strengthen Afro-Am as a department...
...visiting committee's report rightly concludes that the problems now facing Afro-Am after a decade of controversy result from the University's lack of commitment to the department and from factions within Afro-Am itself. These problems are not insurmountable...
...said both departmental structure and the administration's treatment of Afro-Am contributed to its problems. "The visiting commitee didn't think that Harvard has given Afro-American Studies the time or consideration it deserves," he said...
...lack of senior faculty in Afro-Am (the department now has one and one-half tenured professors) drew harsh criticism last spring, as students held a series of demonstrations charging Harvard--and Rosovsky in particular--with failing to search aggressively for tenured faculty, depriving the department of funding and planning to demote it to an interdisciplinary committee...
Daniel Robinson '79, who concentrated in Afro-American Studies, is more skeptical about the future of Afro-Am. He says, "the commitment to Afro has not been shown in the past. I have faith sin what I see. When I see tenured faculty I'll have faith in them...