Word: afros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President, Board of Directors Afro-American Cuhun Ctr., Varsity "B" Tennis Team. Chicago Recruiter--Undergraduate Admissions Office. Editor-in-Chief--"Black and Crimson" Freshman Guide...
...Appeals Court judge this week reinstated former Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies Ephraim Isaae's suit against the University, which was dismissed on procedural grounds 10 months...
Isaac filed his suit against Harvard claiming that he was denied tenure 10 years ago in the Afro-American Studies Department because he is Ethiopian and Black...
Harvard, however, contends that Isaac did not receive the lifetime teaching post because the Afro-American Studies Department at that time needed Americanists rather than Africanists like Isaac. Harvard has also countered charges of discrimination by arguing that the University offered tenure to two other Black junior faculty members at the same time it denied tenure to Isaac...
Isaac, who received his PhD in African Studies in 1969--the year the Afro-American Studies Department was established--said he was "dragged into the new program" with what he took to be a promise of tenure. Ewart Guinier, profess of Afro-American Studies. Emeritus, and chairman of the department during Isaac's stay at Harvard, told The Crimson in October that the department had recommended him for tenure. Officials have said part because Ethiopian studies are not widely taught...