Word: ephraim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changed its curriculum to de-emphasize the political and socio-economic aspects common to blacks in Africa, the Carribean, and the Americas. Along with this de-emphasis, Dean Rosovsky has declared that African Studies are not relevant to Afro-American STudies; therefore, the department has denied tenure to Professor Ephraim Isaacs, world-renowned scholar on African Civilization and Languages...
...SCAAS, therefore, has presented certain demands to the department. First, that it return to the structure outlined in the original prospectus (i.e. allowing for student participation). Second, a re-broadening of the curriculum to include African Studies; and third, the immediate tenuring of Ephraim Isaacs...
...Ephraim Isaac, associate professor of Afro-American studies, is on sabbatical during this academic year, completing a major work, "An Introduction to Classical Ethiopic Literature", through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities...
Meanwhile, the nomination of Ephraim Isaac had been yellowing with age. First proposed in 1971, his nomination passed through all the committees before being acted upon in 1975. Rejected by a committee of scholars alien to his field of expertise, Isaac had been deceived into believing that tenure was a possibility. The assorted rationale offered as an excuse for his rejection underlined the fallacy in his thinking. The committee which judged him said they were not supposed to be considering appointments solely within the Afro department; Rosovsky said that the decision was not necessarily a judgment of scholarship...
...issue that has had implications for both the department's scope as well as its political perspective has been the removal of several Africanists and Pan-Africanists, chiefly Ephraim Isaac and Pierre-Michel Fontaine. Isaac's case has been described; Fontaine's contract was due to be renewed when Dr. Southern became head of the department. She denied her support to either, despite the fact that they were both eminently qualified, and that they together taught most of the students enrolled in the department. She gave no explanation for her actions, even when pressed for one. The result is that...