Word: bok
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while the students chanted, Rosovsky moved quietly to put the errant department in order. In meetings with departmental junior faculty, the Faculty Council and President Bok, Rosovsky discussed how to shore up the faltering department. Last week, he unveiled a plan he believes can restore some direction and vitality to Afro-American Studies--the creation of an executive committee of five senior faculty to run the department. The committee, composed of prominent scholars who have intellectual connections with Afro-American Studies, has several tasks, Rosovsky says...
...controversy again in 1975, when department members and students charged the University with racism and discrimination in its decision not to offer tenure to Ephraim Isaacs, then associate professor of Afro-American Studies. Isaacs had been recommended for tenure by the department in 1971; four years later, President Bok accepted an ad hoc committee's decision not to offer Isaacs tenure...
President Bok, Dean Rosovsky, and Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation and of the Danforth Center, will speak at the orientation...
President Bok established the Danforth Center in 1975 to improve the quality of education provided by teaching fellows...
Quoting "an ancient philosopher," Bok said "Study as if you would live forever, live as if you would die tomorrow...