Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Guinier said the visiting committee never interviewed him. He added that no Afro-Am scholars with national reputations served on the committee. "How can they presume to make suggestions on how Harvard's Afro-American studies department should be developed?" he said...
...Afro-American Studies Department is presently governed by a five-member executive committee appointed this fall. In addition to defining the department's intellectual mission, the executive committee is charged with aggressively recruiting scholars for tenured professorships in Afro-American Studies...
Ewart Guinier '33, professor of Afro-American Studies and former department chairman, said yesterday the committee's conclusions are invalid because its members were unqualified and did not consult Afro-Am faculty...
Guinier also said he doubts the administration's support for the Afro-American Studies department. "Dean Rosovsky has done everything to thwart the development of the department. He personally opposed the establishment of the department. He has always believed that the department should be a committee," he said...
...said both the structure of the department and its treatment by the administration are responsible for its problems. "The committee didn't think that Harvard has given Afro-American Studies the time or consideration it deserves," he said...