Word: ams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"At Harvard, we did end ROTC and achieved a Black studies program," said Jhirad. "No, we did not change the world, but if we shortened the Vietnam War by only a few days and saved only a few Vietamese and American lives, it was worth it. I, for one, am...
Pressing for more in that context meant rejecting the terms of a report on Afro-Am that just two months earlier had received the faculty's approval.
The definition the committee settled on was that the Afro-Am program would be interdisciplinary, offering only tutorials and requiring students to fulfill the rest of their concentration in allied fields.
Faculty members agree that the early years of the Afro-Am department were difficult. The first chair of the department, Dr. Ewart Guinier, was not considered academically qualified, according to several faculty members. As well, professors say, outside scholars were reluctant to enter a department which seemed to be controlled...
Only two tenured faculty members are currently teaching in the department, and it has been unable to fill vacant senior posts for the past several years. Many students charge that the administration is unwilling to support Black studies with financial and other support--and that perhaps, is also the legacy...