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...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...
...department in making such recommendations. In the early years, the standing committee was responsible for the selection and appointment of two tenured faculty in the department. After three years, the standing committee was abolished, and there was only one tenured member of the department, the chairman, Professor Guinier. Next came the sub-committee created by the new dean, Henry Rosovsky, in 1973-74, upon which he and Guinier both sat. That they found no peace together is no surprise: one knew the needs and aims of Black studies, and the other claimed to know. They could not agree...
...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...