Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peace on earth is a hot item on the faculty gift lists this year. Nathan I. Huggins, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, asks for nothing else. Nicolaas Bloembergen, Gade University Professor and this year's Nobel laureate in physics, wants a little more: "I'd like peace and quiet," he says. And John K. Fairbank, Higginson Professor Emeritus of History, is choosiest of all. "Peace and good will is all right," he says, but "but I'd like to add a little more intelligence. A little study...
...University has, at least for the time being, turned down a proposal designed to resolve the six-year-old case of Ephraim Isaac, a former associate professor of Afro-American Studies who has charged the University with discriminating against him on the grounds of race and nationality in denying him tenure...
...year-old case of Ephraim Isaac, a former associate professor of Afro-American Studies, may soon be resolved. Isaac, who has charged the University with discrimination stemming from his failure to receive tenure in 1975, met last Sunday with Daniel Steiner, general counsel to the University, to propose a way of ending the dispute. Neither side revealed details, but Isaac said this week, "It looks like a major change; at least it's a light in the window...
Although History and Literature and Social Studies are also interdisciplinary programs, both are committees that extensively utilize Faculty members in other departments. Many other universities handle Afro-American studies the same way, Huggins said...
Thomas E. Crooks, special assistant to Rosovsky, yesterday stressed the urgency of the Afro-Am Department's search, adding that the department--which lost one full professor and several non-tenured Faculty members last year--is critically understaffed...