Word: afro
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Most of Nathan I. Huggin's first year as the chairman of Harvard's Afro-American Studies department was a tranquil transition to the task of building a solid academic program. But the department's tradition of controversy resumed this April when Josephine Wright, assistant professor of Afro-American studies, filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charging that Harvard discriminated against her on the basis of race and sex. She also said she might sue the university, pending the EEOC's decision on her case...
Wright's charges stemmed from the decision of the Afro-American Studies Executive Committee not to allow her a year-long extension of her teaching contract, which expires at the end of this year since she was not granted tenure. The Black assistant professor requested the extra year to complete her research on Afro-American musical folklore. After being denied the extension, Wright filed a formal grievance with the university, charging that the executive committee discriminated against her on the basis of race...
Wright said the committee has routinely granted such extensions upon request, adding that her research, sponsored by a $77,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, would be "imperiled" if she did not receive the extension. Eileen Southern, professor of Afro-American Studies and Music, who served as the department's chairman before Huggins came to Harvard last fall, said last December it would be a simple matter to allow Wright to stay on another year. Southern, who worked with Wright on her research, added that the department routinely grants extensions, often "for less important reasons" than Wright...
...promised to undertake "a thorough review" of faculty studies. Eugenia Guinier, a BGTA leader and the wife of Ewart Guinier. Professor of Afro-American Studies Emeritus, said last night...
Under the grievance procedure guidelines. Wright may choose one member to the three-member hoc committee that will hear her complaint. Dean Rosvsky and Nathan Huggins, chairman of the Afro-Am department. select the other two committee members. But the committee rejected as "inappropriate" Wright's choice of Eileen Southern, professor of Afro-American Studies, and asked Wright to select someone else...