Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rosovsky Report also included several other recommendations--including a committee to increase course offerings in Afro-American Studies and a cultural center for Black students--which the faculty approved by a large margin in February...
Things seemed to be proceeding smoothly for Afro-American studies at Harvard; after gaining faculty approval, a formal Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies was set up to outline the new concentration's specific format...
...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...
...Afro reacted with outrage to the Black studies plan, and, in the context of the day's other events, decided to act quickly against the faculty's program...
...students demanded a formal Afro-American Studies Department and a Standing Committee whose membership would include faculty and six students--three chosen by Afro and three concentrators in the department. The students were to be granted the same status as senior faculty members in votes on tenure and hiring decisions...