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...April of 1969, the Standing Faculty Committee presented its plan to create Afro-American Studies modeled after the Social Studies program, an interdisciplinary field in which students do most of their work in an allied field such as government or history. The only courses in Afro-American studies were to be tutorials. But the Faculty Committee later decided to reorganize the department so that concentrators would have to double-concentrate in order to study Afro...
While agreeing that the appointment of Guinier made executive decisions difficult, Hall said that the significance of Guinier's tenure as chair is overstated. "Guinier's tenure in the Afro-Am department may have been problematic, but the constant in the equation [of hiring policy], regardless of who was the chair, was Harvard." Hall says that prospective scholars in the department viewed Harvard's tenure policies suspiciously, and credits Harvard's recent failure to attract Afro-Am professors to the same persistent suspicion...
...death of then-Chair Nathan I. Huggins, in December, 1989, was the first of a series of defeats for Afro-Am that ultimately resulted in student activism in much the same way that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination 20 years before galvanize support for the department's creation...
...simultaneous rejection of tenure by outside scholars last year, coupled ture of Carolivia Herron, who was then professor, presented the Afro-Am department a crisis that reawakened its activist...
...until several days ago, with the Chair Werner Sollor's spring-term ahead, the department was devoid scholars and leaders. With few tenured professors and no clear leadership, the Afro-Am departments 1990 looked much like that...