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...LATEST problems of the Afro-American Studies Department should come as little surprise. A small department with few tenured faculty, Afro-Am has always swayed with the whims of its few affiliates...
According to Huggins, however, two appointments to the department were supposed to be made this year but could not be filled. Certainly the method of tenuring in Afro-Am is of little help. Candidates, must be approved jointly by the Afro-Am department and another department with a graduate program. Also, according to Huggins, appointment searches take more time because the field itself is relatively...
Second, the University should consider expanding the department to the graduate level. Harvard reportedly is now considering creating an Afro-Am master's degree program. Such a program surely would stimulate interest in the field...
...status of Harvard's Afro-Am Department is the result of two related vicious cycles. Afro-Am is said to be a legitimate field of study, yet the Faculty claims it cannot find anyone to tenure in that subject. This lack of qualified scholars then is cited as the reason for Harvard not being able to train future scholars. The near disappearance this year of the department demands that administrators take action to ensure its continued existence as a viable and vibrant academic department...
...absence of dissenters at the Faculty vote--which many attribute to the extreme opposing position Mansfield espoused during the Faculty debate--is in stark contrast to the heated debate on campus concerning an Afro-Am department. Only after student strikes and a takeover of University Hall did students sway the faculty on the creation of a new department...