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Pressing for more in that context meant rejecting the terms of a report on Afro-Am that just two months earlier had received the faculty's approval...
...definition the committee settled on was that the Afro-Am program would be interdisciplinary, offering only tutorials and requiring students to fulfill the rest of their concentration in allied fields...
Faculty members agree that the early years of the Afro-Am department were difficult. The first chair of the department, Dr. Ewart Guinier, was not considered academically qualified, according to several faculty members. As well, professors say, outside scholars were reluctant to enter a department which seemed to be controlled by the students...
...There is a problem across the country getting good scholars for Afro-American Studies. There should be more at Harvard, but there should be more every-where."--Columbia Afro-Am scholar Arnold Rampersad. He said this week he turned down a Harvard tenure offer...
Arnold Rampersad, the Columbia professor Harvard hopes to lure to Cambridge for a joint appointment in the Afro-Am and English Departments, says his interest in Black literature was born during the political turmoil of the late 1960s...