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When students heard last spring that the visiting committee to Afro-American Studies might recommend demoting Afro-Am to an interdisciplinary committee, they demonstrated to show their support for the department. The protests subsided, but this week the unexpected release of the committee's report revived an old debate. The committee did recommend that Afro-am become a commitee in light of the problems they said have plagued the department since its establishment ten years...
...declining concentrators and enrollment in Afro-Am courses...
...addition to defining the department's intellectual mission, the executive committee is charged with aggressively recruiting scholars for Afro...
...viability of the executive committee as well as the administration's commitment to Afro-Am has been continually called into question by members of the department as well as by the visiting committee's report. In fact, some administrators speculated the report's release may tarnish the department's reputation still further...
...most Afro-American Studies concentrators disagree with the visiting committee's evaluation. "Afro-Am can survive as a department as long as the University (President Bok and Dean Rosovsky) gives the department the support it is giving to other departments comparable in size to Afro-American Studies." Kenneth E. Walker '82, a joint concentrator in Afro-Am and Economics, said yesterday