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After a decade, the department has one and one-half tenured professors and eight concentrators. Since 1971, the number of concentrators has dropped 76 per cent and course enrollment 58 per cent. Its junior faculty is discontented and its students are furious. Last spring, while Eileen Southern, the chairman of the department, was away on a semester sabbatical, junior faculty met with Dean Rosovsky and the Faculty Council to voice their dissatisfaction with her. At the same time, a series of demonstrations charged the administration--and Rosovsky in particular--with a systematic campaign to destroy the department...
...committee appointed to review Afro-American Studies (known as the McCree committee after its chairman) had highlighted this problem three years previously in 1972. The McCree report criticized the University's failure to appoint more than one tenured faculty member and recommended that it move quickly to bring the number of tenured faculty up to four...
...personnel problems still beleaguer the department--and the creation of the executive committee seems to have compounded some existing intradepartmental tensions. Southern resigned abruptly from her position has chairman last June, citing the creation of the executive committee as one of the reasons for her committee. "I told the dean that I did not understand how it could work having both a committee and a chairman. I didn't see how I could work under those conditions," Southern said this summer...
...asked her to remain as chairman of the department, but I wanted Professor Ferguson to chair the executive committee and that is what she didn't want. She felt a dual authority structure was confusing," he notes...
Chidi Ikonne, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, will serve as acting chairman of Afro-Am. Ikonne replaces Eileen Southern, professor of Afro-American Studies and Music, who resigned in June partly because she said she did not understand how she could work with the executive committee. Ikonne will work under the supervision of the committee, Rosovsky said...