Word: afro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Critics of the Afro-American Studies department's structure at the time suggested that such student privileges irrevocably damaged the chances of building a solid core of top-notch faculty because no professors of any stature would subject themselves to students' cross-examination. But Hall, who was a member of the student search committee for a chair, says that prospective professors actually commended what students were doing. "They may have thought it bold, but none fundamentally disagreed with...
According to Hall, the reason why the faculty of the Afro-American Studies program had so few members well into the 1970s was that it "broke down at the initial chair appointment." By the time Hall left in 1969 to pursue further study at Florida State University and the University of Maryland, the position of chair was still unfilled...
While agreeing that the appointment of Guinier made executive decisions difficult, Hall said that the significance of Guinier's tenure as chair is overstated. "Guinier's tenure in the Afro-Am department may have been problematic, but the constant in the equation [of hiring policy], regardless of who was the chair, was Harvard." Hall says that prospective scholars in the department viewed Harvard's tenure policies suspiciously, and credits Harvard's recent failure to attract Afro-Am professors to the same persistent suspicion...
...death of then-Chair Nathan I. Huggins, in December, 1989, was the first of a series of defeats for Afro-Am that ultimately resulted in student activism in much the same way that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination 20 years before galvanize support for the department's creation...
...simultaneous rejection of tenure by outside scholars last year, coupled ture of Carolivia Herron, who was then professor, presented the Afro-Am department a crisis that reawakened its activist...