Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making appointments, the Committee and the University should note that many men and women, with considerable competence and national reputations in aspects of Afro-America Studies, have not, for various reasons, acquired the normal, academic credentials. This point is particularly applicable to people who have been active in efforts to create economic, social and legal and political change in recent years. Special efforts should be made to invite such people to serve as visiting members of the faculty and fellows of the Center or Institute...
...Afro-American Studies Committee should encourage the development of course offerings in this area within existing Departments by present members of the faculty. The Committee and Departments should give serious consideration to appropriately structured courses involving community field work...
...Committee should arrange for free inter-departmental inter-change of faculty and students in order to made tutorial and independent study in Afro-American Studies available to interested students. The Committee may need to establish an adivsory mechanism to enable students to focus on Afro-American Studies within existing fields of concentration...
...earliest possible time, the Committee should organize and add to Harvard course offerings, a colloquium or colloquia open to students ilnterested in Afro-American Studies. It should work with other Departments and other Committees to insure that concentration credit will be awarded for these colloquia...
...Committee should begin discussion leading toward the development of an undergraduate degree program in Afro-American Studies. This degree should be available to students in the class of 1972--those presently freshmen. The most feasible way to make such a degree possible for this class may be toconceive the program as a combination of Afro-American Studies and an existing concentration. The Committee would offer colloquia and possibly tutorial and arrange in conjunction with existing concentrations for the evaluation of students in these combined programs. We emphasize that this is not necessarily the final form the undergraduate program will have...