Word: offerred
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...Afro-Am students and faculty charged that the University had previously decided not to tenure an Africanist and to offer only joint appointments (Isaacs had requested a single appointment in Afro-Am). They pointed to the unusual time lapse between tenure recommendation and decision as further evidence of malice. But Rosovsky and Bok countered that the delays occurred because of jurisdictional problems created when one of the bewildering array of committees guiding Afro-Am was dissolved and replaced by an interdepartmental search committee. They denied charges of racism, but Isaacs filed a discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
...Rosovsky offers another explanation--many established scholars in such "conventional" disciplines want joint appointments so as not to lose touch with their special field. "In practical terms, the kind of people we wish to attract are established in a certain field and want to maintain a connection with that field," he notes. Because of this problem, the executive committee may offer candidates joint appointments. But some Afro-Am faculty say that desire for joint appointments indicates a disturbing lack of commitment to Afro-American Studies. Benjamin says, "A wholesale commitment to the department is necessary--many people seem to feel...
Although the McCree report urged haste in hiring tenured professors, Afro-Am found itself the center of controversy again in 1975, when department members and students charged the University with racism and discrimination in its decision not to offer tenure to Ephraim Isaacs, then associate professor of Afro-American Studies. Isaacs had been recommended for tenure by the department in 1971; four years later, President Bok accepted an ad hoc committee's decision not to offer Isaacs tenure...
...only way that we could get the new faculty member (Jules Brody) the 6 per cent interest rate that we offer under the Cambridge Option plan," Zeckhauser said, referring to the University's latest program for providing financial assistance to faculty members purchasing property in the Cambridge area. "He couldn't be on hand to get the property for a few days," she added...
Among the key issues are the wage scale, health insurance benefits and the definition of the union. B.U. president John Silber announced Friday the university's first offer will stand unchanged...