Word: departmentment
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It is no easy task for the department to fill those empty posts. Earlier this year, Columbia literary scholar Arnold Rampersad rejected a Harvard tenure offer, citing personal reasons for remaining in New York.
And despite Blight's departure, there are no new junior faculty on the way for next academic year, professors say. They stress, however, that two visiting professors--former Civil Rights leader H. Julian Bond and Amherst scholar David W. Wills--are slated to teach in the department next year and...
But although Huggins emphasizes the positive inhis discussion of the Afro-Am Department, he iswilling to concede that there are sticking pointsfor Black studies at Harvard.
There's nobody that will tell you that theAfro-American Studies Department's offering isgreat. No one will tell you that the HistoryDepartment's offering is what it ought to be.Nobody's offerings are what they should be,"Huggins says.
Huggins says a Faculty-wide staffing problem isespecially acute in a small department likeAfro-Am. Furthermore, all of the department'sappointments are made in conjunction with otherdisciplines, which considerably slows the hiringprocess.