Word: departmentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Foreigners crowded Beijing's airport, trying to escape a chaotic city where tanks and troops raced along main avenues firing at random. In Washington, the State Department urged all Americans "to leave at once" and has begun to charter commercial aircraft to help evacuate civilians from Beijing and Shanghai.
Yet even if McKay accepts the post, students and some faculty members say the department's curriculum will still not be able to meet the needs of the growing number of undergraduates who want to take courses in the field.
When the Afro-American Studies Department extended a tenure offer to a University of Wisconsin literary scholar this year, administrators and members of the department--typically close-mouthed about appointments before they are finalized--were eager to tout the move.
Trying to combat what they said were misperceptions about the department's vitality, administrators and the department's chair, Werner Sollors, made a concerted effort to publicize the possibility of Nellie Y. McKay's arrival at Harvard.
And some student activists have taken up the cause of strengthening the Afro-Am Department, recalling the spirit of its founding 20 years ago at the insistence of Black students.