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BESIDES handling the University's affirmative action program, Walter Leonard also chaired a presidential advisory committee this year that issued a report on the much-delayed W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research. The Leonard committee report recommends a DuBois Institute completely devoted to research and separate from any teaching...
Walter J. Leonard, a special assistant to President Bok and the chairman of Bok's advisory committee on the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, says that for the past five years the Institute has been treated as a "political football." He says his major concern now is to...
But whether he likes it or not, the DuBois Institute continues to be a political football, and Leonard, as the administration's spokesman on the matter, is right in the middle of the fray. The Leonard committee's report on the Institute, submitted to Bok last December and made public...
The University committed itself to funding the black-studies center back in 1969, at the same time it decided to charter the Afro-American Studies Department. The Faculty approved a prospectus for the Institute, written by the Standing Committee to Develop Afro-American Studies, in September 1969. At the end...
In any case, the conflict between Guinier and the central administration took its toll. Guinier, who had been appointed by Pusey to chair the committee overseeing DuBois's development, refused to convene the Faculty committee until the administration changed its stand. Neither the administration nor Guinier would budge, and for...