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The five men who represented the school at yesterday morning's conference with President Pusey were C. T. W. (Adam) Curie, professor of Education and Development; Thomas Parker, assistant to the Dean; Christopher S. Jencks, lecturer; and Wilton Anderson and Phillip M. Whitten, students.
Sizer named Walter McCann, lecturer in Education, as chairman of the committee. Other faculty members are Robbert L. Church, assistant professor of Education and History; Harold C. Hunt, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education; Christopher S. Jencks '58, lecturer in Education; and Florence C. Shelton, research associate in Education.
To complicate matters further I was traveling in the shadow of the Reisman-Jencks Report on Negro Colleges, which was highly critical of the black colleges in the South. It touched off a wide-ranging debate which culminated in a critique of the Report by four leading black educators, and...
Of the nation's 120 Negro colleges, most are in the South and most have traditionally had ministers as presidents-often men of intellectual distinction but with no training as educators. However bombastic in the pulpit, they made a point of being obliging to white authority. They demanded little...
Monro said that Harvard sociologists David Riesman and Christopher Jencks' recent characterization of Negro colleges as "academic disasters" was "the cruelest kind of phrase-making." "The violence of that rhetoric . . . added up to a kind of inhumanity and insensitivity which is all too characteristic of the way white people deal...