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...Isaac subsequently filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in March 1976 charging that the University had refused to give him tenure on the basis of race and nationality. "I decided to go to court because of the broken promises, the irregular procedures and the deep-seated discriminatory manner in which the department and I have been treated," Isaac says, adding he believes that he was denied tenure because of a "behind-the-scenes attempt to not hire people wholly within the department." Isaac says that he does not object to the concept of joint tenure appointments...
...eight years after the 1969 Faculty vote and five years after the release of the McCree Report, Afro still maintains the dubious distinction of being the only department in the University without a single full-time tenured professor wholly within the department. Isaac's ill-fated tenure nomination in 1971 epitomizes the hassles that plague junior faculty members in Afro who apply for tenure, according to many concentrators...
Most of the details surrounding the decision not to offer Isaac tenure have already been documented, but the procedures instituted to consider his nomination continue to disturb many concerned students and junior faculty who wish to remain at Harvard on a tenured basis. Among other questionable practices that marked the events leading to the rejection of his nomination, Isaac notes that not one member of the ad hoc committee established to consider his application "knew anything" about his specialization, although the committee members were chosen with the full knowledge of Isaac's field of academic research...
Moreover, Isaac says that his nomination, sponsored exclusively by Afro, was submitted to the ad hoc panel along with two other candidates who had been nominated by other departments and who were under consideration for joint tenure appointment. He adds that the University never told him that his candidacy would be referred to the same ad hoc committee reviewing two nominees sponsored by other departments with disparate specializations. Finally, Isaac alleges that "at least one member of the committee was known to have a conflict of interest with, and antagonism to, the development of African subject" within the department...
...Isaac prepares to leave Harvard this month upon the expiration of his contract as an Afro associate professor he says that the issue of no full-time tenured faculty in the department remains a matter of considerable importance because "any legitimate department is a department because it has full-time tenured faculty." Isaac's comments point to perhaps the one most significant and unsettling question concerning Afro in the minds of concentrators and junior faculty: what form will the department assume in future years of the present "Americo-centric" and increasingly humanist trends continue...