Word: kilson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kilson and Patterson also agree that the students' power to vote on faculty appointments must be taken away. The Review Committee supported this position in its October 1972 report...
When the Faculty considered Afro at its meeting in January, Kilson proposed an amendment requiring joint concentrations for all Afro majors. Patterson and Kilson believe that such a step is necessary because Afro-American studies is not a traditional academic discipline and because without training in a recognized discipline black students will leave Harvard without a marketable skill...
...Kilson's amendment requiring joint concentrations was narrowly defeated last January. One of the amendments's opponents, James S. Ackerman, Professor of Fine Arts, said at the time that telling a Department how to run its affairs would make that Department second-class. Nevertheless, talk of requiring Afro concentrators to master a "core discipline" remains part of the Afro debate...
...Kilson has made Guinier's appointment to the search committee a point of controversy. Kilson insists that the appointment is "extraordinary and unfortunate" in that it disregards the intent of the Faculty legislation creating the committee...
...Leonard Committee received a memo from Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, suggesting the consortium recommendation be dropped. When it makes its report, the committee will propose organizing the Institute solely within Harvard at the outset. Leonard said that once DuBois is established, it may become a collaborative effort with other schools...