Word: departmentment
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In fact, BSA members met with Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence several times this year to press their demands for a stronger Afro-Am department, Henry says.
The students' demands are straightforward: Hire more professors for the department and increase the number of course offerings.
But even such apparently simple requests are difficult for the Afro-Am Department to meet. Because of the protracted tenure process in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the difficulty of luring already-established scholars to Cambridge, the department has not made a senior-level appointment since Sollors in...
And even if McKay, whose appointment would be a joint one with English and American Literature, accepted the offer, she would become only the department's third tenured member.
The department, meanwhile, will be left with only two junior members next year when Blight leaves. One of those, Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and Sociology Roderick J. Harrison '70-'71, was denied promotion to the associate level and will depart after next year.