Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...origins certainly did make life difficult for the department in the beginning. There definitely was the desire that an Afro-American Department should be much more activist oriented than other departments," says Harrison. "That has very clearly been resolved in favor of a more traditional conception of an academically oriented department...
...tenured faculty members are currently teaching in the department, and it has been unable to fill vacant senior posts for the past several years. Many students charge that the administration is unwilling to support Black studies with financial and other support--and that perhaps, is also the legacy of Afro-Am's early years...
Among positive results of the strike that Epps cites are the establishment of the Afro-American Studies Department and the demotion of ROTC to the status of an extracurricular activity...
...example, Black students' demands for Afro-American studies courses and a more relevant curriculum came to a head in 1969 at a number of campuses, including Cornell and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. And at Harvard, too, the Black student groups joined the fray, temporarily aligning themselves with SDS anti-war activists after the University Hall takeover...