Word: afros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terms of student turnout, the boycott worked. Estis says he feels the boycott was worthwhile "if for no other reason than that it got people informed about the Afro-Am issue." He says it is hard to say which of the issues people turned out to support, but hopes "we got everyone thinking about both...
...approach to the department's tenure problems, however, Rosovsky proposed to the Faculty Council early in May the formation of an executive committee to review faculty for tenure in Afro-American Studies. Guinier opposes the proposal, and the junior faculty in the department have refused to comment on the idea...
...adds that he felt Rosovsky's current proposal was indirectly a result of student concern shown through the spring demonstrations. Rosovsky says, however, that "fuss doesn't demonstrate anything. Students vote their support for a department by enrolling, and the enrollment in Afro-Am has dropped precipitously over the last few years...
Estis says he feels the boycott "brought the Afro-Am Department to students' doorsteps," and has already resulted in an increase in the number of concentrators. "We've got nine new freshman concentrators for next fall, and 21 or 22 new concentrators including joint ones," he adds...
...seems that an increase in enrollment in Afro-American Studies courses, and an increase in concentrators in the department, would be one sure way to show student interest in improving the department...