Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Department chairman Roger Brown will choose the committee, which will consist of four faculty members and two graduate students, from within the department.
Among those who took part in Tuesday's decision were nine graduate students. Last month the Social Relations faculty voted to allow the participation of graduate students in department meetings, giving them ten representatives at the meetings. There are 35 voting faculty members in the department.
The pressure for separation-a question which has recurred constantly in the Department's 20-year history-has come principally from tenured sociologists. They contend that they are being shortchanged by the present arrangement, under which sociology shares the resources and facilities of a single department with two other disciplines...
The "physical" branches of anthropology and psychology are independent departments. Included in those departments are Social Relations affiliates in those fields. But the sociology faculty is not represented as an autonomous department.
Students in the department, both graduate and undergraduate, have shown themselves to be the strongest opponents of a proposed split. Graduates now benefit from the department's extensive interdisciplinary offerings as they pursue one of six independent degree programs. Because of the diversity of the department's interdisciplinary character, undergraduates...