Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changes in the use of the case method are bound to be glacial. Still, the term covers many different types of teaching, "as many different types as there are cases," according to one professor. The changes Bok proposes for the Business School curriculum are another matter. He favors the creation of separate new courses to cover the emerging disciplines of ethics, employee relations, and government regulation...
Many students, beseiged by literature in recent weeks that has marked the tenth anniversary of the Harvard strike, have in fact been surprised to learn that the creation of an autonomous Afro-American Studies Department has been one major demand of striking Harvard students in 1969. More surprising than the subsequent granting of the demand is that, after ten years, the department has come full circle: a visiting committee is at present judging its viability as a department, and presenting recommendations on the status of the department to the Board of Overseers...
...January 1969, the committee, chaired by Henry Rosovsky, then professor of Economics, released its report. A month later, the Faculty voted to accept the committee's recommendations, which included the creation of a standing committee on Afro-American Studies to grant degrees starting with the Class of '72, and the establishment of a standing committee to supervise expansion of course offerings in Afro-American Studies...
Nevertheless, the department had come into existence, its creation directly attributable to student activism...
...groundswell of black activism, that the Faculty's liberal conscience got the better of it, and Dean Ford established a Committee on African and Afro-American Studies. Henry Rosovsky, then professor of Economics, chaired the committee, which eight months later produced a report calling for the creation of a degree program in Afro-American Studies, establishment of a center for black students, and creation of a new committee to revamp African studies. Another issue had come out into the open...