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Participants in the press conference say they will also ask the University to bargain in good faith with Ephraim Isaac, a former assistant professor in the Afro-Am department, who is suing Harvard for racial discrimination because the University did not grant him tenure...
...case of Ephraim Isaacs, a former assistant professor in the department who was denied tenure in 1975, has come to symbolize for many students and alumni this question of departmental focus. Isaacs is a Black Ethiopian scholar, who is challenging his tenure denial as discrimination, and part of a concerted effort of the department to root out Africanists. They say that the Isaacs case is a crucial opportunity to force the department to study the African side as well. A leader of the alumni committee has said that limiting Afro-Am's focus to events since the slaves arrived...
They also plan to draw attention to the on going case of Ephraim Isaacs, who has filed racial discrimination charges against Harvard for its refusal to grant him tenure in 1975. BSA President Gaye Williams '83 said this week...
...full-page advertisement in the Crimson this week calling on the University to reaffirm its commitment to a stong Afro-American Studies Department. And BSA President Gaye Williams '83 said the planned rally will also try to pressure the University to negotiate in good faith in the case of Ephraim Isaac, a former associate professor in the department who was denied tenure...
...alumni committee will continue to concern itself with the issue of "academic integrity," and particularly the issue of tenure decisions, which it considers crucial to the well being of the department. "Our strategy is to bring the case in different causes." Cunningham said, "The Ephraim Isaac case will bring attention to the faculty hiring process," she added...