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...original concept of Afro-American Studies was rooted in the racial activism of the 1960s. The Association of African and Afro-American Students (AAAAS) was founded at Harvard in 1963, an organization dedicated to expanding the number of courses exploring the Black experience in America. By the fall of 1967, as the AAAAS became more activist-oriented, its primary objective became the establishment of an Afro-American Studies Department...
After eight months of exhaustive research, the committee recommended the "development of undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Afro-American studies." Interestingly, the recommendations of the Rosovsky Committee were purposefully ambiguous about whether the administration intended to establish a department or an interdisciplinary studies program to facilitate concentrators...
...April of 1969, the Standing Faculty Committee presented its plan to create Afro-American Studies modeled after the Social Studies program, an interdisciplinary field in which students do most of their work in an allied field such as government or history. The only courses in Afro-American studies were to be tutorials. But the Faculty Committee later decided to reorganize the department so that concentrators would have to double-concentrate in order to study Afro...
These concessions gave Black students and Black student organizations unprecedented power in developing and overseeing the Afro-American Studies program: six students--three chosen by AAAAS and three by and from concentrators--were voting members of the Faculty committee which supervised the initial stages of the program's development. The Faculty thereby surrendered privileges formerly restricted to tenured professors, including voting power concerning curriculum requirements, term appointments and even tenure...
...unprecedented extent of student power with respect to hiring and tenure review prompted Rosovsky to call the incident an "academic Munich." Rosovsky promptly resigned as chair of the Standing Committee on Afro-American studies...