Word: afro-am
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...University has offered lifetime positions to three top Afro-Am scholars from other schools. If all three accept, and if new junior faculty are hired to teach Afro-Am--as has been promised--Harvard will finally get something more than a skeleton Black studies department...
Professor of Afro-American Studies Emeritus Ewart Guinier, who started the Afro-Am Department in 1969, was also a trade unionist and the first Black to run for Manhattan Borough President...
...Guinier was awarded an honorary master's from Harvard and appointed as chair of the fledgling Afro-Am Department. He stepped down as chair in 1976, and left Harvard...
...short term, the administration must make an extraordinary effort to rebuild Afro-Am. Harvard must not only spend a sizeable amount of money to lure top scholars, it must demonstrate a genuine will to create a top-flight department so that outside faculty will be willing to come...
...long run, the only thing that will make Afro-Am a decent department is an overhaul of Harvard's tenure system...