Word: departmentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nathan I. Huggins, Dubois professor of history and of Afro-American studies, calls lack of office space "the prime problem at Harvard." A member of the Afro-American Studies Department--which might move into the Union humanities center--Huggins says, "I don't find anything wrong with a plan that...
But the response to the report has been less than faithful to its primary goal of creating adversarial voices to spur each department to action. Instead, the Executive Committee of the FAS has proposed that the department chairs be responsible for the affirmative action duties on top of their already...
7--It is announced that the English Department has denied tenure to Associate Professor of English Joseph A. Boone. The decision comes at a time when the department is seeking to fill roughly six appointments.
11--The U.S. Department of Education announces that it is investigating whether Harvard admissions policies discriminate against Asian-Americans. The review seeks to determine if the University violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits federally funded institutions from discriminating on the basis of race, ethnicity or religious creed.
3--The Verba Committee on affirmative action issues a report recommending the creation of a standing committee on affirmative action, the appointment of a senior professor in each department to address hiring issues and the installment of a new associate dean for affirmative action.