Word: forde
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...Many of the Black scholars that the Rosovsky committee talked with said they were skeptical about the value of forming a separate department to study African-American history," recalls former Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford. "There were very few great Black scholars out there who wanted to identify their race with their principal teaching responsibilities...
...Ford and Rosovsky both cite the Afro-American Studies Department's unimpressive early history as proof that their initial suspicions about a lack of Black scholars were right...
Included in the supplement was a letter of appreciation from the U.S. State Department to Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford...
...letter, from Ford to President Nathan M. Pusey' 28, suggested ways that Pusey and the Harvard Corporation might be able to subvert the Faculty's recommendations for the future of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC). The Faculty had voted in February 1969 to stop giving credit for ROTC courses and to reduce ROTC to an extracurricular activity...
...Ford advised Pusey to return that vote to the Faculty Council for revision until any recommendations could become "usable as a basis for further action...