Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proclivity of minority doctoral students is to pursue doctorates in fields like Afro-American Studies, Women's Studies or other fields not transferable to a majority of the Faculty positions in a liberal arts institution. The effective use of retirements to free FTUs to appoint more women and minorities is consequently limited by this mismatch and the illegality of forced retirement...
...fiscal feasibility of this proposal, however, is unlikely. The Afro-American Studies department successfully appointed prominent scholars Cornel West, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, William Julius Wilson and Lawrence Bobo using its available FTUs jointly, with other departments. Unfortunately, the Afro-American studies will soon exhaust its available FTUs and face the same difficulties as other departments in recruiting minority and female scholars...
Student activists have worked to gain support from Faculty members, in particular, convincing some noted scholars from the Afro-American Studies Department to endorse their conferences on ethnic studies. However, these activists need to go farther. Last week, the Faculty Council elected six new members to serve for the next three years. Students should meet with these Faculty members and explain why they think Harvard needs to increase its commitment to the study of ethnicity...
...second tenured professor in Women's Studies, Parks appointment not only brings her expertise into the department but also adds stability. Through her appointment, Harvard can begin to build up its Women's Studies department to attract other leading scholars in the field, following in the footsteps of its Afro-American Studies department, which, after Henry Louis Gates Jr. joined it, became the nation's top program of its kind...
...call to drop the charges against these men has been endorsed by both DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Professor of Afro-American Studies and of the Philosophy of Religion Cornel R. West '74, according to Daley...