Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kilson and Guinier agree that blacks who come to Harvard are generally not as well prepared academically as their white counterparts. As a result, black students' academic needs often differ from those of whites. Kilson and Patterson say Harvard's Afro program should not sacrifice traditional Harvard academic standards to meet black students' special needs. Guinier's having done so, they claim, has made Afro a poor sister to the other departments...
Both Kilson and Patterson have suggested various plans to improve the academic quality of the Afro. Each believes that the first step necessary is improving the Department's faculty. Kilson and Patterson agree that in order to attract top scholars joint appointments must be created. To attract new faculty to Afro they must also be given positions in Harvard's older and more stable departments. This should be done, said Kilson, "even at the risk of having white faces in the [Afro] Department...
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...
...committee has met four times since April 10, with Walter Leonard, a special assistant to the President, as its chairman. Besides Guinier and Leonard, the members are Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, Preston N. Williams, Houghton Professor of Religion and Contemporary Change; John F. Kain, professor of Economics; DanielAaron, professor of English; James M. Jones, assistant professor of Social Psychology; and Sarah L. Lightfoot, assistant professor of Education...