Word: afro-am
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...Afro-Am's senior faculty and guide it in making key policy and personnel decisions over the next few years...
...concentrator, who wished to remain unidentified, added that these faculty members doubt Southern's commitment to Afro-Am. Southern has tenure in both the Music and Afro-Am. Departments...
Students calling for the strengthening of the department held several demonstrations last spring, including a day's boycott of classes. These students charged Harvard administrators with failing to search aggressively for tenured professors and working to undermine the department. Afro-Am has one and one half tenured professors--Southern and a semiretired professor...
...time of the boycott, one visiting committee member said, "Boycotts are fun, I suppose. But if each of those kids took one Afro-Am course while at Harvard, the University would have to tenure more professors whether they liked it or not; that's the only way they could handle the demand. And if you support something, that's not so much to ask, you know...
...visiting committee inspecting the Afro-American Studies Department was rumored to be contemplating a bigger change--downgrading the department to committee status. That rumor, and another that Dean Rosovsky favored the change, sparked protest from student groups and Afro-Am professors...