Word: fostering
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Another point of contention raised by some concentrators revolves around the case of Badi Foster, visiting associate professor of Afro-American Studies from the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Foster quickly developed a reputation within the department as one of Afro's prime attractions, an opinion shared by Southern as well as Foster's more enthusiastic boosters among the concentrators. An examination of student enrollment in Foster's courses also attests to his popularity; while only eight students took a fall course Foster offered on social policy and modernization, 64 students enrolled in two of his spring courses, Afro...
...Foster says that he particularly enjoyed teaching Afro 104 because the 27-student enrollment was evenly divided among blacks and whites and included six Chicanos. Afro 104 is "a good example of how the department can escape courses" with all-black enrollments, Foster says and he adds that Afro and black studies programs in other American universities "need to attract more students, especially white students...
Rivera cited Foster's experience because his case demonstrates that Afro faculty members "who draw students are not being rewarded." Invited to teach Afro courses under a one-year contract with the department, Foster will not return to Afro next year, despite his explicit request to Southern that his visiting professor contract be renewed. Foster will confine his academic duties to teaching courses at the Graduate School of Education next year, where he also worked this year on a joint program that included the Afro affiliation. Rivera calls Foster's experiences within the department "the Ephraim Isaac case" of this...
Concentrators often cite the Foster case as confirmation of Southern's alleged lack of committment to attracting as many students to Afro as possible. Observing that only one student in the class of 1980 applied to the department this year as a full-time concentrator (two freshmen will concentrate jointly in Afro), they contend that the policies of Southern do not promote the growth of Afro. The 1977 Concentrators' Report identifies an alleged stress on the humanities at the expense of the political and economic disciplines as a prominent reason for Afro's steadily decreasing number of students. Because Afro...
...called secondary issues (TIME, May 23). Then Vance and Gromyko deliberately launched their own talks on an upbeat note by signing an extension of a treaty to cooperate in space science and medicine and to exchange data on missions to the moon. The two men even tried to foster cordiality by a little banter in the presence of newsmen. As lightning flashed among the Alpine peaks across Lake Geneva, Vance said to Gromyko: "Did you hear those thunderbolts? I was throwing them at you." Gromyko chuckled gamely...