Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through a mixture of back-room negotiation and public pressure the black students convinced Harvard to announce its intention to recruit more black high school students, and to study and presumably improve its course offerings in Afro-American Studies...
Less than two weeks after that, Dean Ford announced the appointment of a Faculty committee to do the groundwork necessary for the establishment of a degree-granting program in Afro-American studies. Meanwhile, the CEP approved cross-registering with other universities in the Boston area for courses in African and Afro-American studies...
...this system of delegation and checks, student opinion can have considerable weight on any given issue. The sources of substantive power--the Administration and Faculty members--are accessible to students with only a few exceptions. Black students this spring have obtained a new field of concentration in Afro-American studies; the Harvard Policy Committee has successfully promoted a fourth-course pass-fail plan, an extension of the independent study program, a reduction in the language department, and an elimination of the junior general examinations in History; an ad hoc committee issued a report recommending weekday parietal extensions from...
...reports from: a) a committee to study the future of Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, b) a committee on the condition of Harvard's existing athletic facilities, c) a committee on the future of the Harvard House system, d) a committee on creating a program of Afro-American studies at Harvard, e) a committee on the uses of computers in Harvard instruction, and f) a sub-committee of the established Committee on Houses which took up the impact the opening of a 10th Harvard House in 1969 will have on the existing Houses and on off-campus...
...problem or new set of proposals arises and a special committee is created to investigate and recommend appropriate action by the entire Faculty. This would include the Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Faculty, the Committee on Afro-American Studies, and the Committee on the future of Harvard's overcrowded undernourished Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. These committees usually have an unspecified but accepted time limit of perhaps one term or one year in which to report back to Ford and the Faculty...