Word: needing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students, complaining of weak teaching skills among the school's highly touted faculty, emphasized the need for a new dean able to foster a "more humane environment," said Clark, quoting from a student's letter to the faculty committee...
...letters to the faculty committee, students emphasized the need for a new dean to serve as "peacemaker" to heal the divisions within the faculty over Critical Legal Studies, a nontraditional, left-leaning school of legal thought, and campus concerns over hiring more women and minority faculty, Clark said...
...faculties were tremendous. Ralph Bunche, Arthur Davis and Alain Locke reigned at Howard, and the student body of Lincoln boasted Thurgood Marshall, not to mention the future presidents of Kenya and Nigeria. But with the 1954 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court decision, the need for Black colleges seemed to diminish, and the top Black minds began to join faculties and student bodies at formerly all-white institutions...
Those who argue for the need for more Black professors emphasize the importance of role models. If the paucity of Blacks interested in pursuing a career in academia is ever to be over-come, it will no doubt require in part the help of some Black professors acting as mentors...
...said the department would need better systems to handle large amounts of information. For example, he proposed using computers to build three-dimensional pictures of development projects' likely results...