Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brief interviews in the Times on April 25 stated that the faculty was "divided." In reality, whatever individual statements obtained by telephone interviews may sound like, such "divisions" have not been reflected in votes. Most faculty actions have shown remarkable unity, and even the action to modify the Afro-American Studies Program was passed by a majority of almost 100 votes. In fact, the cohesion of the faculty has been Harvard's greatest advantage over most other universities in trouble. That would have been the far more important news story...
...faculty gave Negro students a voice in selection of black studies professor ... the faculty, under pressure from black students broke with one of the basic traditional principles. It voted to give students a major voice--six undergraduates to seven professors--in the selection of teachers for the new Afro-American Studies Department." The article goes on to suggest that the resolution was "fuzzy", and that the faculty was abrogating its responsibilities...
...have not used guns, violence, or threats. Their proposal was not a summary demand, but at least the third version of a plan on which the black student community had thoughtfully worked with interested senior members of the faculty. Faculty members of the Committee previously established to deal wit Afro-American Studies spoke for the motion. It was pointed out that the crisis of confidence had arisen in good part because, by a tragic mistake, the committee had forgotten to keep the bargain to consult the black students before the announcement of the Afro-American Program courses for next year...
...Times has commented on the role of students in the selection of professors for the Afro-American Studies Department. It is essential to understand the facts here also. In line with the Rosovsky Committee report, which was adopted by the faculty on February 11, and widely hailed in the Times and elsewhere, a search committee to help recruit faculty was set up on March 5, consisting of three faculty members and three black students. This does not give them power to appoint tenure professors, however. By long-standing Harvard practice, tenure appointments to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
This traditional procedure will still be followed in the case of the Afro-American Rosovsky report and the modification accepted by the faculty on April 22 is not the participation of students in recommending candidates for appointment, but their ability to make recommendations directly to the administration for consideration by the ad hoc committee instead of filtering them through an intermediary faculty committee...