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To its credit, the study sets forth several recommendations that do depart from current affirmative action policies. Reserving two visiting professorships for minority and women scholars, strengthening the DuBois Institute, and considering the creation of new Faculty positions for outstanding scholars when no spots are open are easily accomplished suggestions...
Urging "vigorous encouragement and support" for the DuBois Institute, the report states that "the Institute can play a larger role in the intellectual life of the community by bringing together both minority and non-minority scholars and students" through lectures, conferences and symposia on Afro-American history and culture.
"As director, I say hallelujah," Nathan I. Huggins, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department and director of the DuBois Institute, said last week.
Huggins remains hazy on the financial ramifications of the report's suggestions, saying only that "part of my task is trying to attract money to the DuBois Institute." President Bok and Dean Rosovsky have expressed their commitment to providing greater support--financial and otherwise--to the institute and to a...
He confessed that he had no definitive methods for making the program's existence known. "Maybe a poster with W.E.B. DuBois pointing his finger and saying, 'This is for you,'" he suggested.