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When students heard last spring that the visiting committee to Afro-American Studies might recommend demoting Afro-Am to an interdisciplinary committee, they demonstrated to show their support for the department. The protests subsided, but this week the unexpected release of the committee's report revived an old debate. The committee did recommend that Afro-am become a commitee in light of the problems they said have plagued the department since its establishment ten years...
Despite the visiting committee's recommendation in the report, submitted last spring to the chairman of the visiting committee in the social sciences, Dean Rosovsky said this week he is committed to maintaining Afro-American Studies as a department...
...Partly in response to the report and partly in response to what happened regarding the department last year," the University set up a five-member executive committee to "act as the department's senior faculty," Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology and member of the committee, said yesterday...
...lack of senior faculty in Afro-Am (the department now has one and one-half tenured professors) drew harsh criticism last spring, as students held a series of demonstrations charging Harvard--and Rosovsky in particular--with failing to search aggressively for tenured faculty, depriving the department of funding and planning to demote it to an interdisciplinary committee...
Rosovsky argues, however, that "the record speaks for itself. We've invested heavily in the department. We've tried to make tenured departmental appointments." The University has spent a total of $3 million on the department over the last decade...