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...Afro-Am is a case study in the tradition-bound Harvard tenure system at its worst. A host of institutional defects--the bias against internal promotions, the never-ending hiring searches and the parochial departmental politics--are magnified in Afro...
Harvard's hide-bound tenure system prevents Afro-am from adequately filling its professorial ranks or adequately serving its students...
With the untimely death of Dubois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins in December and the imminent departure of junior sociologist Roderick Harrison, Afro-Am will enter the next academic year with at most two hold-overs from this semester...
...Afro-Am's department chair, Werner Sollors. The title "department chair" is used loosely, as he is the department's only tenured professor...
...tiny department simply cannot be expected to fulfill the daunting academic responsibility facing Afro-am. It is supposed to research the history, literature and politics of Black Americans and teach undergraduates about these subjects...