Word: ams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But at a meeting for students planning to concentrate in Afro-American Studies on April 7, the University showed its hand more clearly. The material in Afro-American Studies, members of the standing committee told students, would be under the control of departments outside Afro-Am. The only courses offered...
Feelings ran high. Afro soon added its demands for an autonomous Afro-Am department to those of the SDS, which called for expulsion of the military Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program from campus, and an end to Harvard's plans to evict tenants from apartments it owned in Cambridge...
Over the past ten years, however, the department's history has been rocky. A visiting committee in 1972 restructured the department, taking advantage of what had once appeared to be a strictly formal power of review; the main reform removed students from the governing board of Afro-Am. It was...
Now, however, the major problem facing the department is the acquisition of tenured faculty. At present, the department has only "one and one-half" tenured faculty. The chairman, Eileen Southern, is currently on leave in Europe; Ewart Guinier '33, the department's first chairman, is semi-retired, and teaches only...
Another, more threatening, problem remains. A visiting committee currently reviewing the status of the department has reportedly considered a proposal to change the department to a degree-granting committee, which would thus relieve it of the power to recommend faculty for tenure. "We're not out to destroy a department...