Word: afros
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Student membership on the Faculty's Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies is a "dubious precedent" for further reform of the University's decision-making process, Henry, Rosovsky, professor of Economics, wrote in the latest issue of the magazine American Scholar...
...students, three elected by prospective concentrators in the field and three by the members of the Association of African and Afro-American Students, were subsequently added to the Committee's seven faculty members. The Standing Committee recommends all appointments in the new department, and will continue to exercise this power until four permanent appointments have been approved, when it will be succeeded by an eight-member Executive Committee, to be composed equally of faculty and students...
Rosovsky was chairman of the Faculty Committee on African and Afro-American Studies, whose widely-publicized report last January recommended the establish-ment of an undergraduate concentration in Afro-American Studies, an increase in the number of fellowships available to black graduate students, and the creation of a black students social center. The Faculty adopted his committee's report in February, and Rosovsky was named to oversee the development of the new department...
...Rosovsky Report envisioned that the undergraduate program would be a so-called "combined concentration." requiring work in both Afro-American Studies and another field, but when a tentative prospectus was issued in the second week of April, many black students objected to what they considered the unduly arduous requirements...
Unfortunately, signs of the same legislative befuddlements have appeared in Faculty meetings, where the effects last longer and are potentially more disastrous. The strain of crisis-meetings could explain the fiasco of last April's Afro-American Studies resolutions...