Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statement on the Isaac case, Rosovsky noted that the 1972 review committee recommended emphasizing the hiring of Americanists rather than Africanists for the department...
...Isaac case also brings the disagreement over the Department's intellectual focus to light. Isaac charged, in a letter to President Bok in 1975, that the ad hoc committee which considered his tenure was told not to appoint Africanists, although Isaac's field is Ethiopic languages and literatures and church history...
...Isaac controversy reflects a larger debate over substantive issues critical to the future of Afro-Am itself, issues that the current executive committee charged with governing the department will have to resolve...
...Isaac's most hotly contested charges is his statement that the ad hoc committee refused to tenure him because they would only make joint appointments...
Rosovsky counters that while the use of joint appointments was preferred by the Faculty Council and the Committee that reviewed the department in 1972, he personally placed Isaac's name before the ad hoc committee. "If no joint appointments were possible," Rosovsky asks, "Why would I have submitted his name...