Word: afros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean Rosovsky created the executive committee last month to define a sense of intellectual mission for the department, to recruit professors for tenured positions and to act as Afro-Am's senior faculty by making personnel and policy decisions over the next few years...
Patterson said he believes the department should consider more specific areas of the concentration--either the historical and cultural aspects of Afro-American Studies or the "more contemporary sociopolitical" issues faced by blacks today...
Ricardo Guthrie '80, a concentrator in Afro-American Studies, said yesterday he believes the concentration "is not a traditional discipline but a meld of theory and practice, where students learn the practical problems and issues of the outside world...
Kenneth Walker '82, also a concentrator in Afro-American Studies, said at the meeting that concentrators choose the department "to make contact with the real world--and the department should help us make contact with this world...
Patterson said the Afro-Am department recruited many faculty more on their "availability and willingness to accept a post at the University" than on the department's critical selection of their academic expertise. "The result was really a hodge-podge of areas in which the professors specialized," Patterson said...