Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problems of black students at Harvard and the role of Afro-American Studies in the Harvard curriculum. In January, the committee finally released its report. It urged the Faculty to set up a degree program in Afro-American Studies, and the Faculty voted on February 11 to approve the plan. Selected sections of the Rosovsky Report dealing with the Afro-American Studies program follow. Deleted clauses refer to criteria for selecting Faculty, expansion of Afro-American-oriented courses in established departments, and development of an Afro-American Studies research center...
...April 7, the Standing Committee in Afro-American Studies held a meeting for potential concentrators and announced the outlines of a concentration plan for next year. Although the plan was intended to be temporary and changeable, it caused immediate outrage among many of the students who saw it. It used the formal language and strict format of the standard "Rules Relating to College Studies," and it told students that they would have to combine their Afro-American Studies major with a major in an "Allied Field." Students would have to take sophomore tutorial in the Allied Field, and their junior...
...response of bitter student objection, the Standing Committee worked quickly to revise its concentration plan. After a late meeting on April 13, the Standing Committee issued a completely revamped concentration plan, which made Afro-American Studies a combined major, like History and Literature or Social Studies...
...Every student will be asked to submit a proposed plan of study to the Chairman of the AAS committee or to his chief assistant at the beginning of sophomore year. Naturally, this study plan will be subject to revision as course offerings are expanded...
...After seeing the new Afro-American Studies plan, Afro took a new stance. It said that the original proposal was clear evidence that the Standing Committee was not in close enough touch with black students. Pointing out that the impetus of the Rosovsky Report had come from students and that the report endorsed the concept of student paricipation, Afro called for a restructuring of the Afro-American Studies department. When Faculty members entered their special meeting on April 15, they received copies of the following proposal from Afro...