Word: ewart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ewart Guinier, professor of Afro-American studies, who spoke at last night's meeting, said the protests of last spring, as well as last night's high turnout, show students "are acutely aware of their responsibilities as moral human beings...
...matters stand now, the department lacks a single full-time tenured faculty member who is wholly within Afro. Ewart Guinier '33, professor of Afro-American Studies, is presently semi-retired and teaches only during one semester of each academic year. Southern holds tenure in the Music Department as well as Afro; she is a musicologist by training, and she was nominated by the Music Department for a joint appointment in Afro. The April 22, 1969, Faculty vote that established the department called for the tenuring of two full-time faculty members in Afro. The 1972 McCree Report on the department...
...after three successful years of the department, Chairman Ewart Guinier had this to say about the situation...
...king goes, so goes the country. With the forced retirement of the chairman, a new phase of the department began. In January of 1975, Eileen Southern replaced Ewart Guinier as the chairperson of the department. Southern was the "logical" choice, since she was the only other person in the department with tenure. Tenure has been a key issue in the development of the department, and a major tool in the University's attempt to shape the department. The creation of a situation where Eileen Southern, jointly tenured in Music and Afro, would be the sole candidate for the chair...
...committee also recommended that the right of concentrators to vote on Faculty appointments to the department be taken away. It further limited the power of Ewart Guinier '33, then chairman of the Department by suggesting that the chairmanship of the Department be rotated...